Details of skull lesions, biopsy parameters, and final diagnosisa
Patient No. | Anatomic Site | Tumor Size (mm) | Tumor Feature | Biopsy Needle | Specimen No. | Core Length (mm) | Final Diagnosis |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Right frontal | 50 × 46 × 22 | Permeative | Bone | 3 | 20 | Intraosseous meningioma |
2 | Left frontal | 13 × 9 × 5 | Osteolytic | Bone | 1 | 10 | Blood products and benign tissue |
Soft tissue | 2 | 10 | |||||
3 | Left frontal | 61 × 42 × 13 | Osteoblastic | Bone | 7 | 2–10 | B-cell lymphoma |
4 | Right frontal | 9 × 9 × 5 | Osteolytic | Bone | 1 | 6 | Hemangioma |
Soft tissue | 1 | 5 | |||||
5 | Left frontal | 11 × 10 × 4 | Osteolytic | Bone | 1 | 5 | Benign bone and soft tissue |
Soft tissue | 2 | 10 | |||||
6 | Skull base and occipital | Diffuse | Mixed | Bone, soft tissue | 6 | 15–20 | Fibrous dysplasia |
7 | Left temporal | 19 × 14 × 10 | Osteolytic | Bone | 1 | 15 | Metastatic salivary sarcomatoid carcinoma |
Soft tissue | 1 | 20 | |||||
8 | Right temporal | 21 × 15 × 7 | Osteolytic | Soft tissue | 5 | 10–20 | Plasmocytoma |
9 | Left parietal | 38 × 34 × 10 | Mixed | Bone | 1 | 10 | Metastatic breast carcinoma |
Soft tissue | 1 | 20 | |||||
10 | Right occipital | 12 × 8 × 8 | Osteolytic | Bone | 1 | 20 | Osteonecrosis |
11 | Left occipital | 27 × 20 × 19 | Osteolytic | Soft tissue | 2 | 20 | Metastatic thyroid carcinoma |
12 | Right parietal | 24 × 18 × 13 | Mixed | Bone | 2 | 4–6 | Metastatic breast carcinoma |
13 | Left parietal | Most of parietal bone | Permeative | Bone | 1 | 5 | Radiation-induced sarcoma |
Soft tissue | 6 | 10–20 | |||||
14 | Left frontal | 27 × 17 × 14 | Osteoblastic | Bone | 2 | 15 | Xanthoma with osteosclerosis |
↵a Data for patients 3 and 6 have been previously published.8