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BMJ Case Reports 2012; doi:10.1136/bcr.07.2011.4439
  • Unusual presentation of more common disease/injury

Frontal cortex dysfunction due to extensive hyperostosis frontalis interna

  1. Marc Bonnefoy1
  1. 1Service de médecine gériatrique, Centre Hospitalier Lyon-Sud, Pierre-Bénite, France
  2. 2Service de Neuropsychologie, Hôpital Gériatrique des Charpennes, Villeurbanne, France
  1. Correspondence to Dr Thomas Gilbert, thomasgilbertmiguet{at}yahoo.fr

Summary

An 87-year-old patient was found to have an unusually protrusive hyperostosis frontalis interna, discovered on MRI examination during an assessment of cognitive decline. Neuropsychological evaluation suggested direct repercussions of the frontal lobe compression on executive functions, as well as psychiatric disorders and possibly memory loss.

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  • Competing interests None.

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