title: [A case of posttraumatic forehead cavernous angioma].
abstract: Cavernous angiomas of the bone are rare tumors. Skull cavernomas are even less frequent. Most cavernous angiomas of the bone are congenital tumors. In a review of the literature, we found only one case report of de novo generation of a skull cavernous angioma. We present a case of a 25-year-old woman who had experienced a head injury, and 7 years later exhibited a skull tumor at the exact region of the injury. We performed tumor resection and cranioplasty. Follow-up examinations revealed no recurrence or neurological defects. Pathological findings showed a cavernous angioma-like lesion with some atypical details. We finally diagnosed the lesion as a de novo cavernous angioma. Our case suggests that fine injury may result in de novo generation of bone cavernomas.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Aomori Prefectural Central Hospital, 2-1-1 Higashi-tsukurimichi, Aomori 030-8553, Japan.
authors.forename: Haruo
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Nishijima
authors.forename: Shinjitsu
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nishimura
authors.forename: Yuichi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Furuno
authors.forename: Mitsuomi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kaimori
authors.forename: Michiharu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nishijima
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005624:Frontal Bone / Q000293:injuries*; D006392:Hemangioma, Cavernous / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D012888:Skull Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D013997:Time Factors