Post- traumatic compound elevated fracture of skull simulating a formal craniotomy.

Abstract

Fracture of the cranial bones following trauma is common. The fracture most commonly encountered in clinical practice is an undisplaced linear fracture of a skull bone or a depressed skull fracture. Compound elevated skull fracture, unlike depressed skull fracture is an extremely rare variety of post-traumatic cranial injury, seldom seen in modern clinical practice. Authors report one such rare case of compound elevated skull fracture, simulating a formal frontoparietal craniotomy, in a 20-year-old male patient following a railway accident. The mechanism of its production as well as the management of such injury is discussed.

• Authors: Sachin A Borkar, Sumit Sinha, Bhavani Shankar Sharma
• Journal: Turkish neurosurgery (Turk Neurosurg) Vol. 19 Issue 1 Pg. 103-5 (Jan 2009) ISSN: 1019-5149 [Print] Turkey
• PMID: 19263365 (Publication Type: Case Reports, Journal Article)

Topics

• Adult
• Craniotomy
• Fractures, Open (diagnostic imaging, surgery)
• Humans
• Male
• Skull Fractures (diagnostic imaging, surgery)
• Tomography, X-Ray Computed