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01-01-2006 | Case Report

Large intradiploic growing skull fracture of the posterior fossa

Authors: M. Kemal Hamamcioglu, Tufan Hicdonmez, Cumhur Kilincer, Sebahattin Cobanoglu

Published in: Pediatric Radiology | Issue 1/2006

Abstract

Growing skull fractures (GSFs) are rare complications of head injury and mostly occur in infancy and early childhood. Location in the posterior fossa and intradiploic development of a GSF is very uncommon. We report a 7-year-old boy with a large, 9×7×4-cm, occipital intradiploic GSF. The lesion developed progressively over a period of 5 years following a documented occipital linear fracture. This case of a GSF developing from a known occipital linear fracture demonstrates that a GSF may reach a considerable size and, although uncommon, intradiploic development and occipital localization of a GSF is possible.

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Title: Large intradiploic growing skull fracture of the posterior fossa
Authors: M. Kemal Hamamcioglu
Tufan Hicdonmez
Cumhur Kilincer
Sebahattin Cobanoglu
Publication date: 01-01-2006
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: Pediatric Radiology / Issue 1/2006
Print ISSN: 0301-0449
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1998
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00247-005-0012-2

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