Tuberculosis of frontal bone: a case report

Abstract

The occurrence of tuberculosis in the flat bones of skull is very rare. With the resurgence of tuberculosis the world over, there have been reports of unusual sites being affected by the disease. But cases of frontal bone tuberculosis are still few. According to Mehrotra1 who reported a case of frontal bone tuberculosis in a child, although tuberculosis is very common in the Indian subcontinent yet tuberculous disease of skull is rare. To the best of our knowledge, only six cases of tuberculosis of frontal bone have been reported in the world literature. The youngest patient affected by tuberculous osteitis of frontal bone was a 3 year old male child presenting with a 12 month history of sinuses over the frontal bone2. The diagnosis in this case was made by biopsy of the bone edges.