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Trabecular and Psammomatoid Juvenile Ossifying Fibroma of the Skull Base Mimicking Psammomatoid Meningioma

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Ossifying fibroma (OF) is a fibro-osseous tumor that usually occurs in young people and arises in the craniofacial bones. We report a case of a 15-year-old boy who developed progressive proptosis and hypertelorism and was found to have a mid-face and skull base tumor, initially diagnosed as psammomatoid meningioma. The tumor recurred and the resected specimen revealed a unique OF having trabecular and psammomatoid features. The clinical, radiographic, histopathologic findings and differential diagnoses of the case are presented.

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  1. Department of Pathology, MetroHealth Medical Center-Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 44109, USA

    Olga L. Bohn

  2. Section of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, College of Dentistry, The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA

    John R. Kalmar & Carl M. Allen

  3. Department of Radiology, The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA

    Claudia Kirsch

  4. College of Medicine, The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA

    Dayna Williams

  5. Division of Cytopathology, Divisions of Thoracic Pathology and Head and Neck Pathology, Department of Pathology, The Ohio State University Medical Center, M364A Starling Loving Hall 320 West 10th Avenue, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA

    Marino E. Leon

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Bohn, O.L., Kalmar, J.R., Allen, C.M. et al. Trabecular and Psammomatoid Juvenile Ossifying Fibroma of the Skull Base Mimicking Psammomatoid Meningioma. Head and Neck Pathol 5, 71–75 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12105-010-0212-4

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