Cranial fasciitis: presentation as a post-auricular mass

Abstract

Cranial fasciitis is a rare variant of nodular fasciitis. It is a benign condition with features resembling sarcoma, seen principally in young males. It involves the skull bones and grows at a rapid pace. Accurate diagnosis and surgical excision is the key to management. Prognosis is good with recurrence rare. By 1992, 17 cases had been reported in the literature. The present case is the first reported in pakinstan.It presented as post auricular mass.

Recurrent fetal rhabdomyoma of the head and neck

“…As with all rhabdomyomas, this is a benign condition with only few cases reported in the literature and even fewer recurrences. These lesions are known to involve the skull bones and generally grow at a rapid rate [11].…”

Cranial Fasciitis Presenting with Intracranial Mass: A Case Report

“…Lesions occurred at the site of previous head trauma in 10 cases (20%) including birth trauma such as forceps delivery in 1 patient, but whether head trauma is an etiological factor has not been determined. In 12 of the reported 21 patients, skull X-ray showed an osteolytic change with a sclerotic rim [3, 4, 6, 13, 14, 18, 19, 24, 28, 36] and sometimes with a bone defect [2, 23], but in 8 patients [11, 12, 15, 21, 22, 25, 30], including ours, normal findings and in 1 patient [26] an ossifying change. CT scan showed an erosion, sometimes with calcification.…”

“…Forty-nine cases have been reported in the literature[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36] and table 1 summarizes 50 cases of cranial fasciitis, including our patient. The average patient age is less than 3 years and ranges from newborn to 47 years.…”

Fasciite craniana em paciente jovem

“…Quando presentes outros sintomas, estes são secundários ao efeito de massa e incluem diplopia, proptose, paralisia do nervo facial e hemiparesia. 2,3,5,8,9 A excisão cirúrgica constitui o tratamento defi nitivo para essas lesões.…”