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Lesions of the scalp and skull

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Atlas of Correlative Surgical Neuropathology and Imaging

Part of the book series: Current Histopathology ((CUHI,volume 24))

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Abstract

The concentrated attention of a number of specialities, otorhinolaryngology in particular, has greatly enhanced the detail of clinical investigation in cranial lesions, but inevitably has had the effect of pathological compartmentalization, and access of the neuropathologist to many of these conditions tends to be restricted to cases involving the neurosurgeon. As is to be expected with epithelial and mesenchymal-proliferative lesions, signal characteristics are non-specific, approximating the common denomination of soft tissue in general, often with loss of differential contrast enhancement: thus meningioma invading muscle, for example, enhances less distinctively than usual (Figures 2.17 and 2.18).

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  1. Neuropathology Unit Department of Anatomical Pathology, Tygerberg Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa

    G. Stuart Rutherfoord (Head, Senior Lecturer)

  2. University of Stellenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa

    G. Stuart Rutherfoord (Head, Senior Lecturer) & R. H. Hewlett (Consultant Neuropathologist, Senior Lecturer)

  3. MRI Unit, City Park Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa

    R. H. Hewlett (Consultant Neuropathologist, Senior Lecturer)

  4. Department of Radiology(Neuroimaging), Tygerberg Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa

    R. H. Hewlett (Consultant Neuropathologist, Senior Lecturer)

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Rutherfoord, G.S., Hewlett, R.H. (1994). Lesions of the scalp and skull. In: Atlas of Correlative Surgical Neuropathology and Imaging. Current Histopathology, vol 24. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1434-9_2

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