title: Giant cell reparative granuloma: a case report.
abstract: Giant cell reparative granuloma (GCRG) is an infrequent benign lesion with undetermined etiopathogenesis affecting the maxillary and mandibular bone and, rarely, the skull. It is also extremely rare in the sphenoid bone. GCRG is usually diagnosed by histologic examination of bone lesions. We report a case of GCRG originating from the sphenoid bone. Computerized tomography revealed an expansile lesion with thinning or destruction of the cortical bone. The lesion itself was slightly hyperdense with good but inhomogeneous contrast enhancement. Reported magnetic resonance image findings showed hyperintensity on both T1-weighted and T2-weighted images and variable contrast enhancement. Plain skull radiographs usually reveal a lytic lesion within the bone.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan, ROC.
authors.forename: S S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Chiang
authors.forename: C Y
authors.initials: CY
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: C B
authors.initials: CB
authors.lastname: Lao
authors.forename: J F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Lirng
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Teng
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006101:Granuloma, Giant Cell / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D013100:Sphenoid Bone; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed