Open AccessGIANT CELL TUMOUR OF THE OCCIPITAL BONE IN A 13-YEAR OLD MALE
Author(s) -
Ashish Chugh,
Ashutosh Mohapatra,
Prashant Punia,
Sarang Gotecha,
Priyam Choudhury
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
jamc. journal of ayub medical college, abbotabad, pakistan/journal of ayub medical college
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.195
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1819-2718
pISSN - 1025-9589
DOI - 10.55519/jamc-02-9383
Subject(s) - medicine , skull , occipital bone , surgery , occipital region , frontal bone , temporal bone , giant cell , anatomy , pathology
Giant Cell Tumours (GCT) are usually found at the extremities of the long bones and their presence in the skull being less than 1%. In the skull, sphenoidal bone and temporal bone are the commonest sites. There have been very few reports of GCTs of the occipital bone. Total excision surgery is the ideal treatment of choice. If surgery poses a problem, then adjuvant radiotherapy can be administered too. We present a case of 13-year-old male child who was diagnosed with GCT of the occipital bone. He was successfully operated and is symptom free 6 months post his surgery till now.