Is skull osteoma serious?

The brain is the central organ of the human body. All human actions are controlled by the brain. However, if you often engage in high-pressure work and do not pay attention to rest, the brain is prone to lesions. The most serious is skull osteoma. Although skull osteoma is a benign tumor, it can also damage brain cells and brain mucosa. The osteoma must be removed in time. If it is not treated in time, the osteoma will grow with the changes in the body and the situation will become more serious.

Osteoma of skull is a common benign tumor that often protrudes on the bone surface. Since the skull vault is a membranous ossification and the skull base is endochondral ossification, osteomas in the skull vault are more common than in the skull base, especially in the frontal and parietal bones.

Causes

The cause of skull osteoma is still not very clear. Most of them are natural growths, and some are related to trauma. Most tumors originate from the outer plate of the skull, grow slowly, and sometimes stop growing on their own.

Classification

It can be divided into dense type (most common, mostly originating from the outer plate of the skull, while the inner plate mostly remains intact) and cancellous bone type (mostly originating from the laminae and growing in an expansive manner).

Clinical manifestations

1. It is common in young and middle-aged people aged 20 to 30 years old, with a long course of disease and no difference between men and women.

2. Most of them are painless skull tumors discovered accidentally or accompanied by mild discomfort. The main symptoms are local lumps, headaches, local pain, dizziness and exophthalmos.

3. It often affects the outer plate of the skull, and may cause local raised lumps that are hard, not adhered to the scalp, smooth in surface, with clear boundaries, inactive, and occasionally tender. There is no redness or swelling of the local scalp, and most of the time there is no discomfort.

4. The lamellar type often has expansive growth, unclear boundaries, and widespread bulging of the skull.

5. Larger inner plate types may cause symptoms of high intracranial pressure and localized neurological dysfunction.

6. Orbital osteoma may cause exophthalmos and decreased vision.

examine

1. Head X-ray

The dense type is round or oval, with clear boundaries, localized high density, and a dense and consistent internal structure, while the cancellous bone type has uneven internal density.

2. CT

The dense type is a round or oval high-density tumor with smooth and sharp edges connected to the normal bone cortex, accompanied by outward displacement of local skin or soft tissue; the cancellous bone type has uneven internal density.

3. MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)

The dense type has low or no T1 and T2 signals and is continuous with the bone cortex without any gaps.