Abstract
Skull lesions may be detected incidentally by imaging or as a manifestation of a known disease. Lesions in this particular anatomic region may have significant uptake on bone scan and SPECT/CT and benign lesions may mimic malignancy on anatomic imaging. This chapter focuses on skull vault lesions and describes the findings and differential diagnosis on bone SPECT/CT.
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Strobel, K., Bhure, U. (2023). Tumors and Tumor-Like Lesions in the Skull. In: Van den Wyngaert, T., Gnanasegaran, G., Strobel, K. (eds) Clinical Atlas of Bone SPECT/CT. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26449-8_32
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