Temporal bone fractures may be complicated by intracranial haemorrhage, C.S.F. leakage and infection, damage to the middle and inner ear and damage to the seventh and eighth cranial nerves. Accurate early diagnosis is important to enable adequate investigation and prompt treatment of any complications. We present eight cases seen in a 12 month period in which a temporal bone fracture was not di...

An 18-year-old woman had a partial seizure affecting the left arm with secondary generalization. There was no history of seizures. Her mother recalled that the patient sustained a head injury as a 3-week-old neonate, falling from the sofa onto a carpeted floor. No investigations were undertaken at the time of the fall, but a CT scan postseizure revealed a skull defect of the right parietal bone...

There is a need to better understand the threshold for paediatric skull fracture. Historically, drop tests of cadaver heads have been used to estimate thresholds. However, societal and ethical considerations prevent tests with child cadavers. Therefore, researchers have attempted to estimate the threshold by scaling adult tolerance data. Recent work suggests that mass and material scaling of ad...

Background: Skull fractures are very serious type of trauma occurring in 15% severe head injuries, and there is a consistent association between the presence cranial fracture higher incidence intracranial lesions, neurological deficit, poor outcome. Objectives were to study various patterns skull associated injuries. Methods: A prospective case series 50 patients with due injury was selected fr...