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Washington University Experience | BASIC PROCESSES | Dura - Bone Formation | 1A1 Bone formation, dura (Case 1) Gross 1A
In most cases bone formation in the dura may occur in the setting of age, but other associations are with secondary hyperparathyroidism in patients with renal failure, as residua of subdural hemorrhage, chronic shunting and metabolic changes. In this case the patient was elderly and had Alzheimer disease.
