RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Giant Cell Reparative Granuloma of the Sphenoid Bone
JF American Journal of Neuroradiology
JO Am. J. Neuroradiol.
FD American Society of Neuroradiology
SP 1675
OP 1677
VO 27
IS 8
A1 A. Aralasmak
A1 N. Aygun
A1 W.H. Westra
A1 D.M. Yousem
YR 2006
UL http://www.ajnr.org/content/27/8/1675.abstract
AB SUMMARY: We present 2 patients with giant cell reparative granuloma (GCRG) of the sphenoid bone. The first patient is an 8-year-old boy with involvement of the greater wing, and the second is a 53- year-old man with a lateral pterygoid plate mass. Both patients presented with rapid expansion of lytic bone lesions, which had solid and cystic components and lacked matrix calcification. Biopsies were indeterminate for definitive diagnoses. The radiologic appearance, location, and incidence of the lesions, and the patient’s age and medical history are helpful aids in narrowing the differential diagnosis of sphenoid bone lesions. However, the imaging and, occasionally, even the histologic findings may not suggest the specific diagnosis of GCRG, which must be added into the differential diagnosis of rapidly enlarging cystic bone lesions of the sphenoid bone.