OBJECTIVE To evaluate using tomographic study the thickness of the cranial board at the insertions points of the cranial halo pins in adults. METHODS This is a retrospective, cross-sectional, descriptive analysis of Computed Tomography (CT) scans of adult patients' crania. The study included adults between 20 and 50 years without cranial abnormalities. We excluded any exam with cranial abnorm...

It remains unknown whether bone graft vascularity influences calvarial healing. The purposes of this study were (1) to develop a model to study nonvascularized and vascularized calvarial grafts as well as (2) to compare effects of bone graft vascularity on calvarial healing. Bilateral calvarial defects were created in 26 Wistar rats. The defects were left empty within 1 parietal region. On the ...

Gorham disease is a rare condition characterized by intraosseous neoplastic proliferation of hemangiomatous tissue with progressive, massive osteolysis. We present a pathologically proved case of Gorham disease that involved the left parietal bone in a 23-year-old man. Imaging studies including conventional radiography of the skull, CT, MR imaging, and Technetium-99 m (Tc-99 m) scintigraphy dem...

Skull metastases occur in patients with various malignancies; however, those resulting from intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) have been rarely reported. In our hospital, 324 patients were diagnosed with metastatic brain or skull tumors from June 1969 to June 2011, but only 3 of them (0.9%) developed skull metastases from ICC. We report the case of 3 patients with skull metastases from ICC. ...

Female breast cancer is one of the major causes of death among women. Metastatic tumors to the maxillo-facial bones are rare. We present diagnosis and treatment of multiple metastatic invasive ductal carcinoma involving massive and early stage the left half of the mandibular body, the floor of the orbit, maxilla, left parietal bone, the iliac bone and cervical and thoracal vertebras in a 36 yea...

A 9-year-old girl was referred to a trauma centre with severe head injury. 3D CT scan revealed depressed fracture involving the frontal bone on the right side, right parietal bone, and right superior orbital margin, right lamina papyracea. The frontal table was managed conservatively and open reduction and internal fixation was done for the supraorbital blow in to correct the ocular dystopia. T...

bone, at the inner margin of the deltoid, and penetrated across for three inches into the pectoral muscle. The face was much scorched and loaded with powder. There was also a wound of an inch long beneath the right eye (which latter suffered much, from receiving a great portion of the fire), and another wound of three inches, over the right parietal bone. Though this man, when put on the table,...

The hair was immediately removed from the neighbourhood of the wound, and as it was matted with blood the whole scalp was subsequently shaved, when also a contused wound was found to exist over the parietal bone of the same side'. A bluut probe was carefully introduced and gently pressed against the cut edges of the bone, but no broken portions were felt, so I did not consider it justifiable to...

SUMMARY OBJECTIVE: Decompressive craniectomy may be a life-saving measure in ischemic stroke patients, who still have several associated complications. The objective of this study is to evaluate novel decompressive surgery technique for severe hemispheric stroke. METHODS: For the hinge (HDC), linear durotomies were performed. Vertical (one or two frontal and parietal), horizontal (temporal), wi...

Regional solitary plasmacytoma of the costa is a rare disease and is characterized by only one or two isolated bone lesions. We report the case of a solitary plasmacytoma of the bone of the right chest wall in an adult. The patient underwent complete enbloc resection of the chest wall including ribs, muscle and parietal pleura. The patient is asymptomatic without any recurrence after two months...