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Unique presentation of occipital condyle giant cell tumor as occipital condyle syndrome – A review

Giant cell tumors (GCTs) of the skull are rare and only a few case series with limited number of cases have been reported till date. In the cranium, GCT usually occurs in the sphenoid and temporal bone, occipital condyle GCTs are very rare. We report a rare presentation of GCT of the occipital condy...

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Autores principales: Matham, Gowtham, Divakar, Ganesh, Deepti, A. N., Thomas, Bejoy, Easwer, H. V., Kumar, Krishna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Scientific Scholar 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9945303/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36891099
http://dx.doi.org/10.25259/JNRP-2021-8-27(1975)
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Sumario:Giant cell tumors (GCTs) of the skull are rare and only a few case series with limited number of cases have been reported till date. In the cranium, GCT usually occurs in the sphenoid and temporal bone, occipital condyle GCTs are very rare. We report a rare presentation of GCT of the occipital condyle manifested as occipital condyle syndrome. Despite gross total resection, they can recur aggressively; the presence of cortical breach might be an indicator of aggressiveness prompting early post-operative imaging and adjuvant therapy.