Unusual frontal bone injury.
A 12-year old girl presented 6 months after a forehead injury due to fall from height. She had a deformed forehead with a rectangular bone defect and a rectangular bicortical bone fragment impacted into the lower edge of the defect. There was no obvious skin or dural injury. The deformed forehead was exposed through a bi-coronal scalp flap. The bone fragment was reposited back into the defect. The forehead of the patient healed with a smooth contour.
Dvivedi
Sanjay
S
Department of Plastic Surgery, Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences, Jolly Grant, Dehradun 248140, India. sdvivedi@hotmail.com
Dvivedi
Jyoti
J
D000058:Accidental Falls; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005546:Forehead / Q000293:injuries; D005624:Frontal Bone / Q000293:injuries*; D006801:Humans; D012887:Skull Fractures / Q000601:surgery*; D013524:Surgical Flaps