A Rare Case Report on Suboccipital Region Benign Giant Osteoma

Herein we report a rare case of a giant suboccipital osteoma in a 55-year-old woman presenting primarily due to cosmetic issue. We discuss the management algorithm taken in the patient, highlighting excision of a potentially curable bony tumor only after ruling out its extension to the ear cavity, m...

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Autores principales: Munakomi, Sunil, Bhattarai, Binod
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4804070/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27051540
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/2096701
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description Herein we report a rare case of a giant suboccipital osteoma in a 55-year-old woman presenting primarily due to cosmetic issue. We discuss the management algorithm taken in the patient, highlighting excision of a potentially curable bony tumor only after ruling out its extension to the ear cavity, mastoid ear cells, transverse sinus, and the intracranial compartment.
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spelling pubmed-48040702016-04-05 A Rare Case Report on Suboccipital Region Benign Giant Osteoma Munakomi, Sunil Bhattarai, Binod Case Rep Neurol Med Case Report Herein we report a rare case of a giant suboccipital osteoma in a 55-year-old woman presenting primarily due to cosmetic issue. We discuss the management algorithm taken in the patient, highlighting excision of a potentially curable bony tumor only after ruling out its extension to the ear cavity, mastoid ear cells, transverse sinus, and the intracranial compartment. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016 2016-03-09 /pmc/articles/PMC4804070/ /pubmed/27051540 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/2096701 Text en Copyright © 2016 S. Munakomi and B. Bhattarai. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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