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A Huge Osteoma in the Anterior Cranial Fossa by Vi J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry: first published as 10.1136/jnnp.24.1.80 on 1 February 1961. Downloaded from J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psychiat., 1961, 24, 80. A HUGE OSTEOMA IN THE ANTERIOR CRANIAL FOSSA BY VI. HUDOLIN, D. RIESSNER, S. KADRNKA, and M. KNEZEVIC From Neurolosko-Psihijatrijski Odjel, Zagreb Osteomata with intracranial complications are of the orbito-ethmoidal region; and 4, osteochon- rare, so that even today they attract interest droma arising from the base of the skull. (Campbell and Gottschalk, 1938; Hariga, 1960), Cushing (quoted by Zulch and Christensen, 1956) especially when they are not arising from the had in his series of 2,023 tumours only 14 osteomata. paranasal sinuses, where they usually originate. Zulch and Christensen (1956) in their own 4,000 Recently we had occasion to observe a patient cases of cerebral tumour mmntion 16 osteomata, with an osteoma of unusual size situated in the while Olivecrona (quoted by Zulch and Christensen, anterior cranial fossa. The clinical picture was that 1956) had no cases of osteoma in his series of of a case of frontal lobe syndrome with personality 5,250 cases. changes and symptomatic epilepsy. We are describ- The frontal lobe syndrome presents a psychiatric ing the case because of the unusual site of the clinical picture which although well recognizedProtected by copyright. osteoma and also as a contribution to the diagnosis cannot be accurately localized or aetiologically de- of the psychiatric syndrome in lesions of the frontal termined by clinical methods. When this syndrome lobe. has existed for some considerable time, and when Osteomata in the intracranial cavity must be there is also severe damage to the frontal lobe, the distinguished from secondary bone formations and question then arises whether restoration of mental from the so-called osteoplastic meningiomata faculties is in any degree possible, especially when (Cushing, 1937). According to the medical literature the patient has only psychiatric symptoms which do they are very rare, and are usually found either as not allow of accurate objective measurement small bony formations of the cranium, or as because the personality changes resulting from exostoses in the region of the anterior clinoid frontal lobe lesions cannot be satisfactorily measured processes, the lesser wings of the sphenoid bone, by the usual psychological tests. Frontal lobe or pyramidal portion of the temporal bone (porus tumours are usually found in patients in mental acusticus internus) (Lindgren, 1954; Ritvo, 1949; hospitals since they very often present only Coley, 1949). Osteomata in these sites show very psychiatric symptoms uncharacteristic of any little tendency to grow. More frequently osteomata definite clinical picture. are found in the paranasal sinuses or arising from http://jnnp.bmj.com/ the orbital roof, and these orbitoethmoidal forms Case Report can lead to complications following their penetra- A peasant woman aged 57, living in the neighbour- tion into the intracranial cavity. Frontal lobe hood of Zagreb, was admitted to the Neuropsychiatric complications in the cases hitherto described arose Department as an emergency case. At the time of after penetration of the accompanying mucocele admission no details of her illness could be obtained into the intracranial cavity then into the brain because of her severe mental derangement and poor substance and finally into the ventricles (Cushing, physical condition. According to the statement of her 1927; Campbell and Gottschalk, 1938; Hariga, husband there was no family history of neuropsychiatric 1960). Spontaneous pneumocephalus and menin- relevance. Since 1937 she had suffered from epileptic on September 29, 2021 by guest. gitis are the complications usually described. fits. She had been prone to drink heavily since early Peters (1951) mentions that oesteomata of the youth, and especially since the end of the Second World War. She had already received hospital treatment in cranium are relatively rare and gives Courville's 1954 having been treated as a chronic alcoholic with classification, namely, 1, circumscribed osteoma of antabus. Shortly after hospital treatment she suffered the cranial vault (single or multiple); 2, diffuse from an extremely severe attack of epilepsy, being un- osteoma (usually arising from the great wing of the conscious for one hour followed by a disturbed mental sphenoid or from the temporal bone); 3, osteoma state for several days. Visual hallucinations were 80 J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry: first published as 10.1136/jnnp.24.1.80 on 1 February 1961. Downloaded from OSTEOMA OF ANTERIOR CRANIAL FOSSA 81 present. She was again admitted to a mental hospital number of cells in the cerebrospinal fluid was increased and discharged after 18 days as a case of chronic (34/3). The aorta showed some degree of atheroma in a alcoholism with symptomatic epilepsy; she was treated chest radiograph. The ocular fundi at first showed no with anticonvulsant drugs. abnormality but just before operation a papilloedema Her husband remarked that after discharge -from of 1D had developed on the right side. hospital on this second occasion she was 'a changed person'. She was restless, forgetful, and careless in her X-ray Findings in the Skull.-Antero-posterior and behaviour. Her condition slowly deteriorated, her lateral views of the skull and frontal and sagittal tomog- epileptic attacks occurred once every two or three raphy of the anterior cranial fossa (Figs. 1, 2, 3) showed months, but she did not take anticonvulsants regularly. that the skull was normal in shape and size. An opaque She continued to drink heavily. shadow approximately 7 cm. in diameter was seen lying Three months before her admission to our hospital on the lamina cribosa equally on either side of the she began to complain of 'terrible headaches' and after midline. The density of the shadow suggested a homo- a particularly severe headache she lapsed into coma geneous calcified circular growth with clearly defined and and was admitted to the provincial hospital where she irregular outlines. The lesion extended from the frontal was diagnosed as a case of apoplexy. She was comatose bone to the sella turcica. There was a projection from for the first three days after admission. At the end of the edge of the growth on the right side towards the 12 days she was sufficiently recovered to be allowed home, lateral angle of the right orbit with ill-defined edges. at the request of her family and against medical advice The internal lamina of the vault was thickened, and before neuropsychiatric investigations had been especially in the frontal area. The caudal part of the done. From that time her mental state rapidly de- posterior wall of the frontal sinus and part of the roof teriorated. She was confused, she spoke at times about of the right ethmoid sinus were narrowed. The lesser herself disconnectedly, saying that it would be better to wings of the sphenoid bone were thickened. The sella keep quiet but that she had to speak, etc. At this time turcica appeared normal and the dorsum sellae was she was eating little and drinking heavily and she lost rarefied. a great deal of weight. Finally, she was admitted to our Pneumoencephalography with 40 ml. of air was done, hospital. On admission she was incontinent of urine and showed that the frontal horns of the lateral ven- Protected by copyright. and faeces. She responded to questioning, but quite tricles were shortened. The central parts of both lateral irrationally. She thought that she was in her native ventricles were widened and, together with the temporal village school. She would not change her opinion about horns and the narrowed basal cisternae, were displaced this in spite of it being pointed out to her that she was backwards. These findings suggested that there was a surrounded by hospital beds and not by school desks. single multicentric osteomateous tumour, the size of an She could not grasp who the people around her were. orange, situated on the base of the anterior cranial fossa She showed no spontaneous interest in her surroundings, lying centrally. The growth had produced backward but smiled constantly in a good humoured manner. She dislocation of the atrophied frontal lobes, ventricular offered no resistance to medical or nursing care and was system, and basal cisternae. There was also erosion of indifferent to injections. She gave the impression that the lamina cribrosa on the right side and of the caudal she had no comprehension of what was going on around part of the posterior wall of the frontal sinus, and reactive her. Occasionally she would join in the conversation of internal hyperostosis, especially in the frontal bone. the other patients with irrelevant remarks. Among a Since the lesion shown on the picture suggested an great many incorrect statements about herself she would expansive growth of homogeneous structure the differ- make an occasional correct one. She could understand ential diagnosis lay between a calcified olfactory and carry out simple instructions. She would sometimes meningioma and an osteoma in the anterior cranial reiterate a chance word heard from the conversation of fossa. On the basis of the history and the clinical and others. She had no complaints of any pain. radiological findings, we diagnosed the case as a http://jnnp.bmj.com/ psychiatric frontal lobe syndrome caused by an ex- Clinical Findings.-She was able to walk by herself, pansive osteomateous growth in the anterior cranial but her gait was unsteady with some dystasia. When fossa. It was decided that neurosurgical treatment brought food, she was able to eat unaided. There was no should be undertaken, especially as signs of raised tenderness of the skull on palpation or percussion. No intracranial pressure were now appearing (papilloedema). signs of meningeal irritation were present. A wide osteoplastic craniotomy was performed by The pupils were slightly contracted, equal in size, not Tonis method.
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