- Multiple destructive tuberculosis foci in the calvaria of a 3-year-old girl.
- Tuberculosis of the calvaria usually manifests as a painless subgaleal scalp swelling with a discharging sinus.
- The lesions are usually either small, circumscribed, punched-out lytic areas or spreading, circumscribed sclerotic areas; or a combination of the two.
- Differential diagnosis
- Multiple lytic lesions in the skull
- TB,
- Multiple myeloma,
- Langerhans cell histiocytosis.
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