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We describe a 69-year-old man with more than a 10-year history of GCT primary to the femur that had recently metastasized to the occipital skull bone. The patient had been receiving denosumab, an adjuvant therapy for GCT, prior to the metastasis. Review of the histological features of the original primary tumor in the femur showed archetypal features of GCT, but the posttreatment occipital skull metastasis showed a predominantly low-to-medium cell density spindle cell tumor with complete depletion of osteoclastic giant cells. Although this effect of the drug is increasingly being recognized by soft tissue pathologists, the current case illustrates the potentially confusing histology of postdenosumab-treated GCT for neuropathologists. 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