Frontal cortex dysfunction due to extensive hyperostosis frontalis interna

BMJ Case Rep. 2012 Jan 10:2012:bcr0720114439. doi: 10.1136/bcr.07.2011.4439.

Abstract

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.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Amnesia / diagnosis
  • Amnesia / etiology*
  • Amnesia / physiopathology
  • Cerebral Cortex / physiopathology*
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Female
  • Frontal Bone / pathology*
  • Frontal Lobe / physiopathology*
  • Humans
  • Hyperostosis Frontalis Interna / complications
  • Hyperostosis Frontalis Interna / diagnosis*
  • Hyperostosis Frontalis Interna / physiopathology
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging