Cephalohaematoma: Not always a benign bump

Affiliations

¹ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, British Columbia Children's Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
² Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, British Columbia Children's Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
³ Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, British Columbia Children's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
⁴ Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, British Columbia Children's Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
⁵ Department of Pediatrics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
⁶ Department of Radiology, British Columbia Children's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Case Reports

Te-Yu Hung et al. J Paediatr Child Health. 2022 Jun.

. 2022 Jun;58(6):1094-1096.

doi: 10.1111/jpc.15769. Epub 2021 Oct 21.

¹ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, British Columbia Children's Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
² Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, British Columbia Children's Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
³ Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, British Columbia Children's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
⁴ Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, British Columbia Children's Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
⁵ Department of Pediatrics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
⁶ Department of Radiology, British Columbia Children's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

No abstract available

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