Erschienen in:
01.01.2006 | Case Report
Large intradiploic growing skull fracture of the posterior fossa
verfasst von:
M. Kemal Hamamcioglu, Tufan Hicdonmez, Cumhur Kilincer, Sebahattin Cobanoglu
Erschienen in:
Pediatric Radiology
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Ausgabe 1/2006
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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.