This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Reply to article  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

Shimon Rumelt, MD; Griffith R. Harsh IV, MD; Peter A. D. Rubin, MD

Arch Ophthalmol. 1997;115(7):922-924.

Abstract
We describe a patient with an incidental finding of an expansile osteolytic lesion centered in the sphenoid involving 3 cranial bones—frontal, temporal, and sphenoid—and invading the brain parenchyma and orbit. Biopsy demonstrated an epidermoid. The lesion was excised through frontotemporal craniotomy. Despite the benign nature of the tumor, the epidermoid had a destructive pattern of growth. Complete resection was needed to adequately address the inflammatory mass effect of the large lesion.

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Ophthalmic Plastics and Orbital Surgery, Department of Ophthalmology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (Drs Rumelt and Rubin), and the Department of Neurosurgical Service, Massachusetts General Hospital (Dr Harsh), Harvard Medical School, Boston.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?

THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES

Orbital Intradiploic Giant Epidermoid Cyst
Blanco et al.
Arch Ophthalmol 2001;119:771-773.
ABSTRACT | FULL TEXT  

Quiz Case 2
Posey and Sterman
Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 1999;125:913-915.
FULL TEXT