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Open Access 01-12-2020 | Lymphoma | Educational Review

Imaging of skull vault tumors in adults

Authors: Albert Pons Escoda, Pablo Naval Baudin, Paloma Mora, Mònica Cos, Javier Hernandez Gañan, José A. Narváez, Carles Aguilera, Carles Majós

Published in: Insights into Imaging | Issue 1/2020

Abstract

The skull vault, formed by the flat bones of the skull, has a limited spectrum of disease that lies between the fields of neuro- and musculoskeletal radiology. Its unique abnormalities, as well as other ubiquitous ones, present particular features in this location. Moreover, some benign entities in this region may mimic malignancy if analyzed using classical bone-tumor criteria, and proper patient management requires being familiar with these presentations. This article is structured as a practical review offering a systematic diagnostic approach to focal calvarial lesions, broadly organized into four categories: (1) pseudolesions: arachnoid granulations, meningo-/encephaloceles, vascular canals, frontal hyperostosis, parietal thinning, parietal foramina, and sinus pericrani; (2) lytic: fibrous dysplasia, epidermal inclusion and dermoid cysts, eosinophilic granuloma, hemangioma, aneurysmal bone cyst, giant cell tumor, metastasis, and myeloma; (3) sclerotic: osteomas, osteosarcoma, and metastasis; (4) transdiploic: meningioma, hemangiopericytoma, lymphoma, and metastasis, along with other less common entities. Tips on the potential usefulness of functional imaging techniques such as MR dynamic susceptibility (T2*) perfusion, MR spectroscopy, diffusion-weighted imaging, and PET imaging are provided.

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Title: Imaging of skull vault tumors in adults
Authors: Albert Pons Escoda
Pablo Naval Baudin
Paloma Mora
Mònica Cos
Javier Hernandez Gañan
José A. Narváez
Carles Aguilera
Carles Majós
Publication date: 01-12-2020
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Keywords: Lymphoma
Meningioma
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Computed Tomography
Hemangioma
Metastasis
Computed Tomography
aneurysmal bone cyst
Hemangioma
Meningioma
osteoma
Hemangioma
Hemangioma
Hemangioma
Published in: Insights into Imaging / Issue 1/2020
Electronic ISSN: 1869-4101
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13244-019-0820-9

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