Fibrous dysplasia on the skull.

ABSTRACT

A young rickshaw puller admitted in Neurosurgery ward of Mymensingh Medical College Hospital due to ugly looking skull swelling on right side and iatrogenic ulceration on the postero-superior surface of the swelling. He also mentioned that he was not socially well-excepted and facing difficulty in getting married for that ugly lesion and was very unhappy at that time. CT scan was suggestive of fibrous dysplasia of skull bone and no other abnormalities were present on other part of the body. Then complete excision of the mass was done and fibrous dysplasia was confirmed by histopathological study. Two months after surgery he got married and expressed his happiness. In fibrous dysplasia, normal bone is replaced by fibrous connective tissue with varying degrees of osseous metaplasia. It is a benign disorder of bone commonly seen from childhood to the third decade. Virtually any bone in the body can be affected. Regarding investigations, plain radiography in the first line study. CT may be required to assess complex region such as the spine, pelvis, chest and facial skeleton. Histologically, fibrous dysplasia appears as multiple areas of fibrous tissue contained within islands of bone with evidence of both blastic and clastic activity.