.m ed kn ow A 49-year-old female was operated for left lateral orbital wall fibrous dysplasia 12 years back. The patient was having a relatively uneventful course till four months back when she started to have headache and noticed a swelling in the scalp which gradually increased in size over a period of time. On examination she had a mild proptosis of the left eye with a normal vision. There w...

INTRODUCTION In this report, we describe the clinical course, diagnostic features and management of a patient with fibrous dysplasia of the temporal bone 7 years after middle ear surgery on the same side. CASE PRESENTATION A 16-year-old Caucasian girl presented to our hospital with a growing bone lesion in the roof of the left temporal bone. She had undergone a previous tympanoplasty at 7 yea...

McCune-Albright syndrome (MAS) is a rare disease defined by the triad of polyostotic fibrous dysplasia of bone, café-au-lait skin spots, and precocious puberty. No available treatment is effective in changing the course of fibrous dysplasia of bone, but symptomatic patients require therapeutic support to reduce bone pain and prevent fractures and deformities. We report the case of a 27-year-old...

Fibrous dysplasia is a benign tumor of bone, uncommonly affecting the maxilla, congenital, recurrent character and etiology unknown, caused by bone modeling disorder in which normal replaced immature fibrous tissue. The lesion may involve one or more bones being maxilla facial affected. We report case monostotic variety male patient complaining progressive swelling rt that compress inferior orb...

Clinical history and examination A TWENTY-FOUR year old soldier was seen on 4 March 1969 with a two month history of cramp-like pains in the right thigh and front of right leg. Pain was intermittent, aggravated by standing for more than a half hour, or walking more than a half mile. Five years ago he had received a direct blow to the right tibia in a traffic accident and since then he had notic...

Introduction Fibrous dysplasia (FD) of the clivus, first described by Lichtenstein in 1938, is a very rare developmental, non-hereditary disorder caused by abnormal proliferation and maturation of fibroblasts resulting in replacement of mature bone by weak and immature bone.

Fibrous dysplasia (FD) is a developmental tumor like condition that is characterized by replacement of normal bone by an excessive proliferation of cellular fibrous connective tissue intermixed with irregular bony trabeculae. Central giant cell granuloma (CGCG) is described as a benign lesion affecting the mandible and maxilla that consists of a massive fibrohistiocytic proliferation with numer...