Unusual calvarial tumors

Manoranjitha Kumari Mani, Manas Kumar Panigrahi, Krishna Reddy A

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Manoranjitha Kumari Mani^1,*, Manas Kumar Panigrahi^1,* and Krishna Reddy A¹

¹Department of Neurosurgery, Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences, Minister Road, Secunderabad - 500003, Telangana, India

*Corresponding authors: Dr. Manas Kumar Panigrahi, MCh., FACS., Senior Consultant Neurosurgeon, Department of Neurosurgery, Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences, Minister Road, Secunderabad - 500003, Telangana, India. and Dr. Manoranjitha Kumari Mani, MCh., Junior Consultant Neurosurgeon, Department of Neurosurgery, Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences, Minister Road, Secunderabad - 500003, Telangana, India. Tel.: +91 40 44885000; Mobile: 09676212055; Email: drmanoranjithakumari@yahoo.com

Received 13 May 2015; Revised 20 June 2015; Accepted 27 June 2015; Published 30 June 2015

Citation: Manoranjitha Kumari M, Manas Kumar P, Krishna Reddy A. Unusual calvarial tumors. J Med Sci Res. 2015; 3(3):120-125. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17727/JMSR.2015/3-023

Copyright: © 2015 Manoranjitha Kumari M, et al. Published by KIMS Foundation and Research Center. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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Abstract

Hypophosphatemic mesenchymal tumors of the skull bone otherwise known as oncogenic osteomalacia and aneurysmal bone cysts of the skull are rare tumors occurring in calvaria. This report consist two rare tumors recently encountered in the Department of Neurosurgery, KIMS Hospital, Secunderabad. Both the patients presented with different clinical pictures. A middle aged person with hypophosphatemic mesenchymal tumor presented with generalized weakness, tremors, pains and fracture left hip joint associated with scalp swelling with hypocalcemia and hypophosphatemia. The other patient with aneurysmal bone cyst was a child and presented with progressive painless enlargement of swelling in the parietal region. Both the tumors were locally aggressive though they were benign histopathologically. Both the patients underwent surgical excision of the tumor. Complete surgical excision reverted the biochemical and clinical picture of the hypophosphatemic mesenchymal tumor patient to normal level. Oncogenic osteomalacia and aneurysmal bone cysts are rare tumors to occur in calvaria, operation is reasonably an easy procedure and complete excision of the tumor will cure the problem.

Keywords: unusual calvarial tumors; hypophosphatemic mesenchymal tumors; oncogenic osteomalacia