Growing skull fracture
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[Growing skull fracture].
BACKGROUND Growing skull fracture or craniocerebral erosion is a rare complication of linear skull fracture in childhood. It is characterized by progressive diastatic enlargement of the fracture line, which leads to a cranial defect, dural cleft, and cerebral herniation. It is presented as a soft pulsabile scalp swelling above the fracture, with a clear cranial defect. CASE REPORT In this pap...
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عنوان ژورنال: Military Medical and Pharmaceutical Journal of Serbia
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0042-8450,2406-0720
DOI: 10.2298/vsp0608761m