The Krapina fossils are the largest collection of Neandertals known, representing a unique opportunity to examine Neandertal variation at a single place and time. Because of the nature of the assemblage, knowledge about the collection as a whole must be obtained from the analyses of the individual skeletal elements. In this work I present a summary of a subset of the Krapina fragments, the occi...

Accident records of the Frenchay Accident and Emergency Department for the months of January to June 1979 were examined, and 1,534 cases of head injury were recorded. Of these, the numbers of cases submitted to skull x-ray, admitted to hospital and having CT scans were noted. 1,341 skull x-rays were performed of which 23 showed fractures of the cranial vault. 351 patients were admitted, and of ...

Primary non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of the bone is an unusual presentation Hodgkin's lymphoma, with primary cranial vault (PCVL) being rarest lymphomas. We describe a case immunocompetent elderly patient new onset gait imbalance and cognitive delays. Brain imaging showed large extra-axial mass osseous invasion. An initial misdiagnosis meningioma led to delays in management. Further work up included ...

Only 0.5 to 2% of hydatid cysts are localized in the skeleton and of these, 3 to 4% are found in the skull. In this paper, the authors report a case of primary hydatidosis involving the cranial vault revealed by a bulging mass of the forehead and symptoms of raised intracranial pressure that occurred in a 22-year-old woman who came from a rural area. Through this case and literature review, the...

A 37-year-old previously healthy man presented with a localized headache and a progressive enlarging mass in the left frontal area for more than 8 months. He also reported a history of head injury in the same area sustained two years before. On physical examination, the mass (about 28 mm in diameter) was hard to pressure with freely mobile skin above the lesion in the left frontal sus-orbital r...

Bones of the cranial vault are formed by the differentiation of mesenchymal cells into osteoblasts on a surface that surrounds the brain, eventually forming mineralized bone. Signaling pathways causative for cell differentiation include the actions of extracellular proteins driven by information from genes. We assume that the interaction of cells and extracellular molecules, which are associate...

We report here a neurocranial abnormality previously undescribed in Pleistocene human fossils, an enlarged parietal foramen (EPF) in the early Late Pleistocene Xujiayao 11 parietal bones from the Xujiayao (Houjiayao) site, northern China. Xujiayao 11 is a pair of partial posteromedial parietal bones from an adult. It exhibits thick cranial vault bones, arachnoid granulations, a deviated posteri...