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…
Multiple Lucent Skull Lesions Miral D. Jhaveri, MD DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS Common Skull Normal Variants Venous Lakes Emissary Veins, Transcranial Arachnoid Granulations Prominent Convolutional Markings Parietal Foramina Treatment-Related Burr Holes Surgical…
Thin Skull, Localized Miral D. Jhaveri, MD DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS Common Skull Normal Variants Parietal Thinning Squamous Temporal, Occipital Bones Arachnoid Cyst Mega Cisterna Magna Less Common Slow Growing Neoplasm Oligodendroglioma…
Skull Normal Variants Miral D. Jhaveri, MD DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS Common Skull Normal Variants Arachnoid Granulations, Calvarium Vascular Grooves Venous Lakes Emissary Veins Parietal Thinning Asymmetric Marrow, Petrous Apex Asymmetric Foramina…
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