Case Report

Hyperostosis frontalis interna in a patient with giant cell arteritis

Authors

Hilal Kocabas¹, Ilhan Sezer¹, Meltem Alkan Melikoglu¹, Ulku Gurbuz¹, Ozge Illeez¹, Irem Hicran Ozbudak² and Bulent Butun¹

1. Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, School of Medicine, Akdeniz University, 07058 Antalya, Turkey
2. Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey

Received:

26 March 2007

Accepted:

7 October 2007

Published online:

6 February 2008

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Abstract

Hyperostosis frontalis interna (HFI) is a disorder characterized by progressive symmetric thickening of the inner table of the frontal bone of the human skull. HFI may be accompanied by headache and some neuropsychiatric diseases such as epilepsy and dementia. Giant cell arteritis (GCA), also called temporal arteritis, is a systemic inflammatory vasculitis of unknown etiology that affects medium- and large-sized arteries. It affects elderly people and may result in a wide variety of systemic, neurologic and ophthalmologic complications. As no association of HFI and GCA was encountered in the literature, we found it interesting to report a case with both of these clinical entities.

Keywords

Headache - Hyperostosis frontalis interna - Giant cell arteritis