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Its Distinction From "Blistering" or "Intra-osseous" Meningioma

Harold Z. Lehrer, MD

Arch Neurol. 1969;20(5):536-541.

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THE TERM "ossifying fibroma" is applied to a localized fibro-osseous dysplasia encountered in the bones of the face and skull which presents clinically and radiographically as a monostotic expansile lesion.^1,2 When it occurs at the base of the skull, especially in the orbital roof, an ossifying fibroma appears as a round or oval radiolucency surrounded by a shell of bone. According to Taveras and Wood,³ a meningioma that arises "in relation to air sinuses of the skull, particularly the sphenoid sinus, often produces a characteristic pattern which has been called 'blistering.' " This was first noted by Dyke⁴ who referred to it as "hypertrophy of the bone forming the posterior ethmoid cells so that these project into the intracranial cavity."

Thus, a blistering meningioma may resemble an ossifying fibroma of the orbital roof or sphenoid⁵ to some extent radiographically. Histologically, there is also partial similarity.⁶ . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
New Orleans

From the Department of Radiology, Tulane University School of Medicine and Charity Hospital, New Orleans. Dr. Lehrer is now at the Department of Radiology, New York Medical College, New York.

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Submitted for publication Sept 23, 1968; accepted Nov 14.

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