title: Cavernous hemangioma of the parietal bone.
abstract: METHODS
  Male, 38 FINAL DIAGNOSIS: Cavernous hemangioma Symptoms: Headache • parietal mass
  
  
  METHODS
  - Clinical Procedure: - Specialty: Neurosurgery.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  A rare disease.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Bone hemangioma is a vascular hemartoma of bone structures. In general, this pathology is detected on incidentally investigated patients' films. Bone hemangioma is most commonly seen in 4(th) decade of life and the male/female ratio is 1/1.5. The locations of these lesions are commonly long bones of the vertebral column and the skull. Primary bone hemangiomas constitute less than 1% of all bone tumors, and they are seen at 0.2% in the calvarial region.
  
  
  METHODS
  Cases with this pathology are seen on incidental radiological evaluations. We report the case of a 38-year-old man with localized headache and a palpable mass in the left parietal region, admitted and operated on after cranial CT and MRI. Pathology investigation revealed a cavernous hemangioma.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We suspected that in our case head trauma may have been the cause of cavernous hemangioma in the calvarial region, because cavernous hemangiomas are rarely located there. Localized headache and minor discomfort can be seen with this pathology. The best treatment for cavernous hemangiomas is the removal of the mass within the limits of safe surgery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Elazığ Training Research Hospital, Elazığ, Turkey.
authors.forename: Ibrahim Burak
authors.initials: IB
authors.lastname: Atcı
authors.forename: Serdal
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Albayrak
authors.forename: Nejat
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Yılmaz
authors.forename: Necati
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Uçler
authors.forename: Emre
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Durdağ
authors.forename: Omer
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Ayden
authors.forename: Deniz
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kara
authors.forename: Hülya
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Bitlisli
authors.forename: Gülçin
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Cihangiroğlu
keywords: cavernous hemangioma; headache; trauma