Brazilian Neurosurgery, 2021 Up to 20% of victims from skull fractures are represented by the pediatric population, and 50% of these lesions are depressed skull fractures. The treatment is multimodal in nature, ranging from conservative treatment to open surgical repair.
Rodrigo Moreira Faleiro +8 more
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Surgical treatment of depressed fracture of skull in neonates
Chinese Journal of Contemporary Neurology and NeurosurgeryObjective To explore the surgical treatment of depressed fracture of skull in neonates. Methods and Results Eight neonates with depressed fracture of skull who underwent surgery in Children's Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University from January 2021 ...
LIU Bo +3 more
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Study of outcome of patients sustaining depressed skull fracture following blunt head trauma
Journal of College of Medical Sciences-Nepal, 2018 Background: One of the common neurosurgical conditions is depressed skull fracture. It could be simple or compound type. This study aims to assess the outcome of the patients with depressed skull fracture.Material and Methods: Retrospective cohort study ...
Bidur KC, Bikram Shakya, Amit Thapa
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To Determine the Frequency of Dural Tear in Patients Presenting with Depressed Skull Fracture [PDF]
Journal of Gandhara Medical and Dental Sciences, 2017 OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to determine the frequency of dural tear in patients with depressed skull fractures. MATERIAL and Method This cross-sectional study was conducted in department of Neurosurgery Pakistan institute of Medical ...
Sohail Amir +2 more
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Post-Traumatic Middle Cerebral Artery Pseudoaneurysm Following Depressed Skull Fracture: Case Report and PRISMA-Guided Literature Review [PDF]
NeuroSciTraumatic intracranial aneurysms (TICAs) are rare lesions accounting for
Giuseppina Bevacqua +3 more
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Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery, 2019 Although an open depressed skull fractures at the anterior cranial fossa is relatively common, comorbidity with a progressive vision loss at initial presentation, with acute communicating hydrocephalus is rare. Here we report a rare case of a progressive
Ahmad Faried, MD., PhD +3 more
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Can the addition of “Black Bone” sequence improve diagnosis of skull fractures after traumatic brain injury in children? [PDF]
BMC Medical ImagingBackground This study aimed to evaluate whether three-dimensional (3D) Black Bone imaging enhances diagnostic accuracy in detecting skull fractures in children with traumatic brain injury (TBI), using computed tomography (CT) as the reference standard ...
Junwei Li +8 more
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Development and validation of a deep learning model for automatic detection of depressed skull fractures from CT scans [PDF]
BMC Medical ImagingBackground Depressed skull fractures with bone depression greater than in one cortex might cause major consequences and require surgery in traumatic head injury patients.
Salita Angkurawaranon +5 more
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Evaluation of Correlation between Cases of depressed fracture and Associated Brain lesion [PDF]
Journal of Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2003 THis cross-sectional study was performed on 382 patients with depressed skull fracture admitted to the neurosurgery ward of Kerman Bahonar Haspital between 1994 and 1999.329 of the patients(86.1%) had open fractures,while the fracture was of closed type
A Ebrahimi nejad, H Rehani-Kermani
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Is computed tomography of the brain necessary in patients with clinically suspected depressed skull fracture and no focal neurological deficit? [PDF]
South African Journal of Radiology, 2010 Objective. The objective of the study was to determine whether computed tomography (CT) of the brain is necessary in all head trauma patients with clinically suspected depressed skull fractures, Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) scores of 13 and above, and no ...
J A Rabie, S Otto, A J le Roux
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