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| Year : 2011 | Volume
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Giant intracranial osteochondroma: A case report and review of the literature
Renuka Inuganti Venkata1, Satya Varaprasad Kakarala2, Sailabala Garikaparthi1, Seshadri Sekhar Duttaluru2, Annapoorna Parvatala1, Aparna Chinnam1
1 Department of Pathology, Guntur Medical College, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India
2 Department of Neurosurgery, Government General Hospital, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India
Correspondence Address:
Renuka Inuganti Venkata
Department of Pathology, Guntur Medical College, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh
India
© 2011 Venkata et al; This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
DOI: 10.4103/2152-7806.84242 PMID: 21918733
Background: Intracranial osteochondromas are uncommon. The majority of lesions arise from the base of the skull or from bones developed by endochondral ossification. A minority of cases are attached to the falxcerebri in the fronto parietal location.
Case Description: We report a case of a giant intracranial osteochondroma in a 24-year-old man. This patient presented with complaints of convulsions and headache. Imaging studies of the brain, gross, and histological features concluded it to be an osteochondroma.
Conclusion: This case is reported in view of extreme rarity of the lesion, and to emphasize the fact that complete surgical resection is curative.
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