Spontaneous reduction of a closed depressed skull fracture: a case report.
Presented is a single case of a 6-year-old child in whom a closed depressed skull fracture was found to be elevated spontaneously less than 2 days after the injury. There were no cosmetic or neurological sequelae at follow-up. This case demonstrates that these injuries do not always require operation and that they occasionally resolve spontaneously, even in school-age children.
D002648:Child; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005596:Fractures, Closed / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010294:Parietal Bone / Q000293:injuries*; D012075:Remission, Spontaneous; D012887:Skull Fractures / Q000473:pathology*