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Case Reports
. 2019 Jan-Mar;14(1):237-239.
doi: 10.4103/ajns.AJNS_242_17.

Elevated Skull Fractures - Too Rare to Care for, Yet too Common to Ignore

Viraat Harsh  1 , Vanya Vohra  1 , Prashant Kumar  1 , Jayendra Kumar  2 , Chandra Bhushan Sahay  1 , Anil Kumar  1
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Case Reports

Elevated Skull Fractures - Too Rare to Care for, Yet too Common to Ignore

Viraat Harsh et al. Asian J Neurosurg. 2019 Jan-Mar.

Abstract

Elevated skull fractures form a rare subset of compound skull fractures owing to the paucity of cases studied and reported. In this article, we present 17 cases of elevated skull fracture in a mixed population of adult and pediatric age groups which were operated over a period of 5 years (2012-2017) at our institute. We have discussed the mode of injury, clinical presentation, clinicoradiological findings, and treatment options highlighting the appropriate management strategies opted. Although elevated fractures are rare; issuing definite treatment protocol can reduce the morbidity and mortality of the patients.

Keywords: Elevated skull fracture; head injury; skull fracture.

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The most common site of elevated skull fractures
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The most common associations of elevated skull fractures
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The most vulnerable age groups affected by elevated skull fractures
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Computed tomography scans (brain and bone window) showing elevated skull fractures. (a) Brain window right and bone window left showing right frontal elevated skull fractures. (b) Brain window on the right showing left frontal elevated skull fractures with underlying contusion, bone window on the left
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