TUBERCULOUS OSTEITIS OF THE CRANIAL VAULT - A RARE LOCATION - REPORT OF A CASE

A 47-year-old woman with headache, a decline in general health, labora tory evidence of inflammation, and multiple defects on radiographs of the skull was thought at first to have either bone metastases or multi ple myeloma. Histologic studies showed that the lesions were due to tu berculous osteitis. Few cases of tuberculosis of the cranial vault hav e been reported, The diagnosis depends on obtaining a biopsy specimen. Appropriate therapy is followed by resolution of the symptoms and hea ling of the radiologic lesions.