How to treat occipital osteoma

Common treatments for occipital osteoma include surgery and radiotherapy treatments. Which treatment method should be adopted should be determined according to the specific situation. 1. Surgery: If the tumor is relatively large, with bone destruction and obvious pain and nerve compression in occipital bone, surgery can be considered to remove the tumor, and if necessary, local bone grafting or replacing the original tumor with artificial cranial bone can be carried out. After surgery, the patient should take appropriate protein and vitamin supplements, and undergo regular checkups. 2. Radiotherapy: if it is malignant occipital osteoma, radiotherapy can be used to control the lesion and relieve pain before and after surgical resection to reduce the local recurrence rate, and attention should be paid to the fact that those who can not be operated for extensive lesions can be treated with radiotherapy alone. Radiotherapy can choose regional arterial infusion chemotherapy to improve the survival rate of patients with malignant occipital osteoma. For the same disease, patients with different physical conditions and different stages of the disease have different treatment methods, which should be standardized under the guidance of doctors.