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Intrauterine Depressed Skull Fracture With Spontaneous Resolution

Rugolotto et al., 2007Other/Unknown

Rugolotto, S., Grippaldi, E., Sidoti, G., & Padovani, E. M. (2007). Intrauterine depressed skull fracture with spontaneous resolution. La Pediatria Medica e Chirurgica : Medical and Surgical Pediatrics, 29(1), 47-49.

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Abstract

We describe a full term male infant born by cesarean section, who presented a deep round depression of the left parietal bone at birth. MRI scan showed no signal alteration on cortical and sub-cortical level in correspondence of the depressed skull fracture. At four months of age, a skull X-ray was normal. At 18 months of age growth and neurologic follow-up is normal.

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