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Dural Calcification(s) Miral D. Jhaveri, MD DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS Common Physiologic Calcification, Dura Osseous Metaplasia (Falx Contains Fatty Marrow) Meningioma Subdural Hematoma, Chronic Less Common Basal Cell Nevus Syndrome Benign Nonmeningothelial…

Sclerotic Skull Lesion, Solitary Miral D. Jhaveri, MD DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS Common Metastasis Osteoma Fibrous Dysplasia Meningioma-Associated Hyperostosis Paget Disease Less Common Osteomyelitis, Skull (Chronic) Calcified Cephalohematoma Rare but Important Calvarium…

Sclerotic Skull Lesions, Multiple Miral D. Jhaveri, MD DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS Common Metastases, Skull Less Common Fibrous Dysplasia Paget Disease Rare but Important Hyperparathyroidism (“Brown Tumor”) Osteoma Osteopoikilosis Melorheostosis Osteopathia Striata…

Lytic Skull Lesion, Solitary Miral D. Jhaveri, MD DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS Common Skull Normal Variants Surgical Defects, Calvarial Burr Holes CSF Shunts and Complications Metastasis Less Common Epidermoid Cyst Langerhans Cell…

Thin Skull, Generalized Miral D. Jhaveri, MD DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS Common Normal Infant Skull Obstructive Hydrocephalus Aqueductal Stenosis Less Common Lacunar Skull Hyperparathyroidism Hypophosphatasia Rare but Important Rickets Osteogenesis Imperfecta Cleidocranial…

Thick Skull, Localized Miral D. Jhaveri, MD DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS Common Hyperostosis Frontalis Interna Meningioma Metastasis (Osteoblastic) Less Common Fibrous Dysplasia Paget Disease Dyke-Davidoff-Masson Cephalhematoma (Calcified) Chronic Subdural Hematoma (Calcified) Osteomyelitis…

Thick Skull, Generalized Miral D. Jhaveri, MD DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS Common Skull Normal Variants Diffusely Thick Skull, Normal Hyperostosis Frontalis Interna Phenytoin (Dilantin) Use, Chronic Shunted Hydrocephalus Metastases (Diffuse Sclerotic) Paget…

“Hair on End” Miral D. Jhaveri, MD DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS Common Anemias Thalassemia Sickle Cell Disease Hereditary Spherocytosis Hemangioma, Skull Metastases, Skull Less Common Neuroblastoma, Metastatic Iron Deficiency Anemia Cyanotic Congenital…

Scalp Mass Miral D. Jhaveri, MD DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS Common Subgaleal Hematoma Foreign Body Lipoma Sebaceous Cyst Metastases, Skull Less Common Dermoid Cyst Epidermal Inclusion Cyst Basal Cell Carcinoma Squamous Cell…