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Cranial fasciitis of childhood

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We present a child with a rapidly growing mass and lytic skull lesion that on pathologic evaluation was diagnosed as cranial fasciitis. This disease entity is not widely known by radiologists, and should be included in the differential diagnosis of lytic skull lesions.

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  1. Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital National Medical Center and the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC, USA

    N. S. Hunter & D. I. Bulas

  2. Department of Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital National Medical Center and the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Science, Washington, DC, USA

    W. M. Chadduck

  3. Department of Pathology, Children's Hospital National Medical Center and the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC, USA

    R. Chandra

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Hunter, N.S., Bulas, D.I., Chadduck, W.M. et al. Cranial fasciitis of childhood. Pediatr Radiol 23, 398–399 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02011971

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