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  Vol. 115 No. 7, July 1997 TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Giant epidermoid involving 3 cranial bones

S. Rumelt, G. R. Harsh 4th and P. A. Rubin
Department of Ophthalmic Plastics and Orbital Surgery, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, USA.

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.

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