Giant osteoma of the skull vault

Giant osteoma of the skull vault

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Osteoma is the most common primary bone tumor in the craniofacial skeleton.However, most of these are small, asymptomatic and arise from the facial bones or in relation to the paranasal sinuses.Cranial vault osteomas, that too giant and symptomatic are much rarer.We report a case of sixty year-old poise pads in bulk gentleman presented with a very slowly increasing, painless, hard swelling on the left side of his head.

Computerized tomography scan showed the left parietal calvarial tumor to be having large exostotic and enostotic components.He underwent an en-bloc excision of the tumor and cranioplasty.Giant, symptomatic cranial vault osteoma with concurrent exostotic and enostotic components is extremely rare.These lesions can be safely catherine lansfield ombre rainbow clouds eyelet curtains and completely excised with careful planning and attention to detail.