Post-traumatic extensive chronic osteomyelitis of skull vault: An illustrative case report
Maksalmina Reshtin, Ahmad Faeez, Haseeb Mehmood Qadri, Abdul Ghafoor, Ahtesham Khizar · 2024
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Description
Maksalmina Reshtin and co-authors report a rare bone infection of the skull in a 2024 case study. Chronic infection of the skull base is well documented, but the same slow infection in the skull vault, the domed top of the head, is seldom seen. Their patient was a thirty-eight-year-old Afghan man with a hard swelling that had grown over six months.
A year earlier the man had suffered a head injury with a broken, open skull fracture, treated by surgery at the time. Scans now showed a broad bony swelling across both sides of the front skull, sparing the brain beneath. Surgeons removed the lesion and rebuilt the skull in the same operation, and tissue tests confirmed chronic bone infection, though no germ grew in culture. The patient went home two days later, well. The authors share the case to put this rare site on clinicians' radar.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Maksalmina Reshtin, Ahmad Faeez, Haseeb Mehmood Qadri, Abdul Ghafoor, Ahtesham Khizar |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 12 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |