EyeRounds Online Atlas of Ophthalmology

Contributor:
Andrew Doan, MD, PhD, University of Iowa

Category: Oculoplastics
Diagnosis: fibrous dysplasia

Image Comments:

In fibrous dysplasia, the medullary bone is replaced by fibrous tissue, which appears hyopdense on CT scans. The lesion is classically described as ground-glass appearance. First scan is an axial CT.

Coronal CT scan

 

 

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