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Large intradiploic growing skull fracture of the posterior fossa

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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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  1. Department of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, Trakya University, 22030, Edirne, Turkey

    M. Kemal Hamamcioglu, Tufan Hicdonmez, Cumhur Kilincer & Sebahattin Cobanoglu

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Hamamcioglu, M.K., Hicdonmez, T., Kilincer, C. et al. Large intradiploic growing skull fracture of the posterior fossa. Pediatr Radiol 36, 68–70 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00247-005-0012-2

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