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Delayed occurrence of intracranial supratentorial chondroma following compound depressed skull fracture.

Hong JT, Lee SW, Son BC, Sung JH, Choi HC, Kim MC

Department of Neurosurgery, St. Vincent Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Chi-dong, Paldal-ku, Suwon, Korea.

We describe an exceptional case of a frontal convexity chondroma arising at the site of a compound depressed skull fracture operated on 12 years earlier. We conclude that intracranial chondroma should be included in the differential diagnosis of a calcified mass for the patients who had had a compound, depressed skull fracture along the suture line, especially in cases of dural laceration by the fragmented bone.

Published 2 June 2005 in Acta Neurochir (Wien), 147(3): 343-5; discussion 345.
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