CASE HISTORY / CLINIC:
Patient with severe headache that radiates temporaly as well as to the mid-parietal region. Increase in intensity especially upon bowing the head. There is presently no indication of purulent rhinorrhea.


FINDINGS:
Ground-glass-like consolidation and inflammation of the entire right petrous pyramid typical of fibrous dysplasia. Furthermore, the right temporal squama, the sphenoid body and the right greater wing of the sphenoid bone and some ethmoidal cells are affected.


DIAGNOSIS:
Fibrous dysplasia

DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS:
Osteopetrosis

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