What is your approach to progressive calvarial hyperostosis found in an elderly adult not caused by Pagets, acromegaly or hypercalcemia?
No evidence for acromegaly or Pagets.
Answer from: at Community Practice
Does your patient have meningioma? Is the osteosclerosis generalized or localized? Localized osteosclerosis can arise from tumors (either benign or malignant) that secrete osteogenic proteins. I have had such a patient, with the unresectable meningioma secreting endothelin. Endothelin is also secret...