Author Topic: MRI shows gap in skull bone post surgery. Is this normal?  (Read 2023 times)

saccadiceye

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MRI shows gap in skull bone post surgery. Is this normal?
« on: March 22, 2017, 05:20:23 pm »
My MRI shows a gap in my skull bone. I had a cerebellar tumor removed. The surgeon drilled into the occipital bone. The gap looks to be a few mm wide and a few cm long. However, I am not an expert on reading these scans  ;D.

I will see a neurologist in a week maybe I will ask him.

I notice that I feel worse when the air pressure and weather changes. I generally feel much better during long periods of stable weather.

Is a gap in the skull normal post surgery?
Cerebellar lesion removed late-Feb 2013
Age 22

Kathleen_Mc

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Re: MRI shows gap in skull bone post surgery. Is this normal?
« Reply #1 on: March 26, 2017, 12:41:10 am »
I would think this would be normal, you say yourself the doctor drilled a hole in the bone, this takes time to re-calcify ( if it does).....the drill hole I had hasn't , the incision line somewhat but not completely....that's from the first surgery and from the second no re-growth of bone ( was plugged with fat)
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Kathleen
1st AN surgery @ age 23, 16 hours
Loss of 7-10th nerves
mulitple "plastic" repairs to compensate for effects of 7th nerve loss
tumor regrowth, monitored for a few years then surgically removed @ age 38 (of my choice, not medically necessary yet)