Cranial fasciitis of childhood

Pediatr Radiol. 1993;23(5):398-9. doi: 10.1007/BF02011971.

Abstract

We present a child with a rapidly growing mass and lytic skull lesion that on pathologic evaluation was diagnosed as cranial fasciitis. This disease entity is not widely known by radiologists, and should be included in the differential diagnosis of lytic skull lesions.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Fasciitis / diagnostic imaging*
  • Fasciitis / pathology
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Male
  • Osteolysis, Essential / diagnostic imaging
  • Osteolysis, Essential / etiology
  • Scalp*
  • Skull / diagnostic imaging
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed