title: Painful sporadic osteolysis of the parietal bone 'Gorham's disease'.
abstract: We report a 62-year old man, with painful osteolysis 'Gorham disease' of skull. To ameliorate pain, large craniotomy and cranioplasty was performed. There was no sign of recurrence after one year. A brief review of the literature is presented.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Neurosurgery , Sina Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences , Tehran , Iran.
authors.forename: Abbas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Amirjamshidi
authors.affiliation: a Department of Neurosurgery , Sina Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences , Tehran , Iran.
authors.forename: Kourosh
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Karimi-Yarandi
authors.affiliation: a Department of Neurosurgery , Sina Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences , Tehran , Iran.
authors.forename: Mohammad
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hosseini
authors.affiliation: a Department of Neurosurgery , Sina Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences , Tehran , Iran.
authors.forename: Shahab
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ghazy-Mirsaeed
authors.affiliation: a Department of Neurosurgery , Sina Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences , Tehran , Iran.
authors.forename: Ahmad
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pourrashidi-Boshrabadi
mesh_terms: D003399:Craniotomy; D006801:Humans; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D019635:Neurosurgical Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D010014:Osteolysis; D010015:Osteolysis, Essential / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D010294:Parietal Bone / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography
keywords: Cranioplasty; Gorham–Stout disease; osteolysis; skull tumour