Abstract
Intraosseous cavernous hemangioma is a vascular tumor that only rarely affects the cranial bones. We describe three patients with this unusual tumor and discuss the clinical and radiological features of this lesion in the light of published data.
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Cervoni, L., Artico, M. & Delfini, R. Intraosseous cavernous hemangioma of the skull. Neurosurg. Rev. 18, 61–64 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00416480
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