Bone-by-bone: A detailed skull description of the White-headed dwarf gecko <i>Lygodactylus picturatus</i> (Peters, 1870)

Skull base bone hyperpneumatization.

A 50-year-old male with a long standing history of compulsive Valsalva maneuvers, complaining of episodes of vertigo underwent head computed tomography. Axial CT slices at the level of the skull base (Fig. A) and the first cervical vertebrae (Fig. B) shows an extensive unusual pneumatization of both the body and lateral processes of the first cervical vertebrae (arrows), with air pouches dissec...

Skull Expansion by Spring-Mediated Bone Regeneration

Gorham’s Disease of the Skull Demonstrated by Bone SPECT-CT

Received 6/8/2004; revised 8/10/2004; accepted 8/15/2004. For correspondence and reprints contact: Shiou-Chi Cherng, M.D., Department of Nuclear Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, 325 Section 2, Cheng-Kung Road, Neihu, Taipei 114, Taiwan. Tel: (886)2-87927121, Fax: (886)2-87927217, E-mail: [email protected] We present a case of Gorham’s disease of the skull by using Tc-MDP bone SPECT-...

Osteoradionecrosis of the skull stimulating bone metastases.

Multiple skull erosions which simulated bone mestatases developed in a 54-year-old patient who had been treated for favus by radiotherapy 40 years earlier. Radiation necrosis should be recognized and differentiated from defects and erosions due to malignant or infectious process in order to prevent unnecessary procedures and treatment.

Skull Base Surgery of the Temporal Bone

Objectives: The aim of this study was to review major temporal bone cases performed by one surgeon, and to highlight pitfalls and progress in the surgical management of previously “unresectable” neoplasms. Design: Retrospective case series review. Setting: Tertiary referral center. Participants: Nine patients who underwent total en bloc temporal bone resection for malignancy of the ear and temp...