increased skull thickness

• chronic severe anemia (e.g. thalassemia, SSD)
• cerebral atrophy following shunting of hydrocephalus
• Engelmann disease: mainly skull base
• hyperparathyroidism
• acromegaly
• osteopetrosis
• chronic dilantin ingestion

• meningioma
• fibrous dysplasia
• Dyke-Davidoff syndrome
• hyperostosis frontalis interna
• metastases

© 2002, C.E. Kahn, Jr.
2002-04-18