Tumors of the Skull Vault in Three Cases and a Systematic Review of the Literature

Tumors of the vault of the skull are rare and truly diverse, dominated in frequency by secondary lesions. Data from the literature concerning the frequency of bone tumors and the cranial location of primary tumors vary from 0.8% to 2%. They can be incidentally discovered or revealed by local signs, the most frequently encountered being painful or painless cranial deformities. The clinic is generally not very suggestive of the tumor specifically in question, although it can guide through the signs and symptoms present (such as inflammation and pain). The neuroradiological assessment, essential for their management, is no longer conceivable without computed tomography. We have collected in this work, in the light of a retrospective study including 3 cases, the pathogenetic, epidemiological, clinical, diagnostic, and therapeutic aspects within the Neurosurgery Department of the CHU Ibn Rochd of Casablanca of the tumoral lesions at the level of the vault of the skull. The etiological diagnosis of vault tumors is very polymorphic. We collected 3 cases whose average age was 30 years, with extremes ranging from 12 to 45 years with a female predominance, and whose histological diagnoses were all different from each other.