title: Chondromyxoid fibroma of the frontal bone in a teenager.
abstract: We report a skull chondromyxoid fibroma with symptomatic intracranial extension causing initial misdiagnosis as a psychiatric disorder in a 14-year-old child. CT performed for work-up of the patient's "stuffy nose" revealed a large calcified frontal bone mass with extensive intracranial growth. We present this child with the diagnosis of intracranial chondromyxoid fibroma with detailed neuroimaging and neuropathology correlations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Division of Neuroradiology, Children's National Medical Center, 111 Michigan Ave., Washington, DC 20015, USA. nkadom@cnmc.org
authors.forename: Nadja
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kadom
authors.forename: Elisabeth J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Rushing
authors.forename: Amanda
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Yaun
authors.forename: Mariarita
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Santi
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002812:Chondroma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005350:Fibroma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005624:Frontal Bone / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D012888:Skull Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
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