Cranial fasciitis of childhood: A case report

Fasciite craniana em paciente jovem

“…Quando presentes outros sintomas, estes são secundários ao efeito de massa e incluem diplopia, proptose, paralisia do nervo facial e hemiparesia. 2,3,5,8,9 A excisão cirúrgica constitui o tratamento defi nitivo para essas lesões.…”

Cranial Fasciitis Presenting with Intracranial Mass: A Case Report

“…CT scan showed an erosion, sometimes with calcification. In most cases [2, 4, 10, 13, 17, 18, 33, 36], MRI showed iso-intensity as well as gray matter on T 1 - and T 2 -weighted images. Others reported low intensity on T 1 -weighted images and high intensity on T 2 -weighted images [19], [28], slightly high intensity on T 1 -weighted images [12], [23] and iso-intensity on T 1 -weighted images and high intensity on T 2 -weighted images (our case).…”

“…Forty-nine cases have been reported in the literature[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36] and table 1 summarizes 50 cases of cranial fasciitis, including our patient. The average patient age is less than 3 years and ranges from newborn to 47 years.…”

“…Remarkable enhancement was seen after administration of contrast media. No evidence of restricted diffusion was demonstrated on a diffusion-weighted image [17]. There are no specific findings concerning cranial fasciitis on imaging studies.…”

“…Differential diagnosis includes eosinophilic granuloma, infantile fibrosarcoma, inflammatory lesions, fibromatosis, neurofibroma and scalp meningioma [2, 17, 26, 30, 32]. …”