Abstract

MEDRANO MONTERO, Javier et al. Presentation of a Patient with Morgagni-Stewart-Morel Syndrome. ccm [online]. 2016, vol.20, n.4, pp. 840-846. ISSN 1560-4381.

Morgagni-Stewart-Morel Syndrome is a rare disease characterized by bilateral hyperostosis frontalis interna associated to metabolic and psychiatric disorders, with hypertension and cranial nerve dysfunction of undefined etiology. A female patient of 73 years, hypertensive, diabetic, obese, was presented with psychiatric disorders; suffering from headache, hyposmia and hearing loss.  In the tomographic study a stage A of Hershkovitz classification of the disease was found.

Keywords : Morgagni-Stewart-Morel; hyperostosis frontalis interna; metabolic craneopathy.

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