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Skull fracture and epidural hematoma caused by use of a Mayfield skull clamp in an adult patient with chronic hemodialysis: a case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2021
Background Mayfield skull clamps are widely used and indispensable in current neurosurgery. Complications such as skull fractures or intracranial hematoma from using a Mayfield skull clamp have largely been reported in the pediatric population, are ...
Takeo Furuya, Masashi Yamazaki, Tetsuharu Nemoto, Akihiko Okawa, Seiji Ohtori   +4 more
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Use of Vacuum-suction in Depressed Skull Fractures – Case Report and Technical Nuances of Nonoperative Treatment

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, Sérgio Cavalheiro, João Tiago Alves Belo, Vítor Vieira de Souza Moraes, Aieska Kellen Dantas dos Santos, Ellano de Brito Pontes, Rodrigo de Oliveira Teixeira, Aretha Miranda Silva, Nathalia Lacerda Eller Costa   +8 more
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Skull Fractures

, 2017
Priya Rajagopalan, Aaron Kamer, Aaron Cohen-Gadol   +2 more
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A rare case of depressed skull fractures at the anterior cranial fossa associated with communicating hydrocephalus resulting a progressive vision loss

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, Christian B. Kurniawan, MD, Danny Halim, MD., PhD, Muhammad Z. Arifin, MD., PhD   +3 more
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A study of clinical presentation and management of base of skull fractures in our tertiary care centre

Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery, 2021
Basal skull fractures remain one of the more difficult head and neck fractures to evaluate and treat. They often have extensive associated injuries, both intracranial and extra-cranial, which make the management of the patients more challenging.The aim ...
Bhaskar Naidu, Visweswaran Vivek, Krishnaswamy Visvanathan, Ravi Shekhar, Sudha Ram, Krishnamurthy Ganesh   +5 more
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Routine Head Computed Tomography for Patients in the Emergency Room with Trauma Requires Both Thick- and Thin-Slice Images

Emergency Medicine International, 2016
Background. Images of head CT for the supratentorial compartment are sometimes recommended to be reconstructed with a thickness of 8–10 mm to achieve lesion conspicuity.
Kazuhide Maetani, Jun Namiki, Shokei Matsumoto, Katsutoshi Matsunami, Atsushi Narumi, Toshimi Tsuneyoshi, Masanobu Kishikawa   +6 more
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Growing skull fracture

Vojnosanitetski pregled, 2006
Background. Growing skull fracture or craniocerebral erosion is a rare complication of linear skull fracture in childhood. It is characterized by progressive diastatic enlargement of the fracture line, which leads to a cranial defect, dural cleft, and cerebral herniation.
Miljan Mihajlovic, Igor Nikolic, Mirjana Raicevic   +2 more
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Cerebral Venous Air Embolism due to a Hidden Skull Fracture Secondary to Head Trauma

Case Reports in Neurological Medicine, 2015
Cerebral venous air embolism is sometimes caused by head trauma. One of the paths of air entry is considered a skull fracture. We report a case of cerebral venous air embolism following head trauma.
Ai Hosaka, Tetsuto Yamaguchi, Fumiko Yamamoto, Yasuro Shibagaki   +3 more
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Enlarging Skull Fractures

Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 1995
The diagnosis, management, and treatment of large unhealed skull fractures are reported in 10 children, aged 2 weeks to 27 months, seen at the Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC in a 4 year period.
J Gordon Millichap
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Skull-base fractures: Pearls of etiopathology, approaches, management, and outcome

Apollo Medicine, 2019
Fractures involving skull bases usually results from high-velocity impacts, i.e., motor vehicular accidents. The estimated incidence of skull-base fracture varies from 4% of all head injuries to 7%–16% of closed head injuries.
K V. L Narasinga Rao, Padilla-Zambrano Huber Said, Luis Rafael Moscote-Salazar, Guru Duatta Satyarthee, V Anil Kumar, Ranabir Pal, Amit Agrawal   +6 more
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