title: Large intradiploic growing skull fracture of the posterior fossa.
abstract: Growing skull fractures (GSFs) are rare complications of head injury and mostly occur in infancy and early childhood. Location in the posterior fossa and intradiploic development of a GSF is very uncommon. We report a 7-year-old boy with a large, 9 x 7 x 4-cm, occipital intradiploic GSF. The lesion developed progressively over a period of 5 years following a documented occipital linear fracture. This case of a GSF developing from a known occipital linear fracture demonstrates that a GSF may reach a considerable size and, although uncommon, intradiploic development and occipital localization of a GSF is possible.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, Trakya University, 22030 Edirne, Turkey. mkemalh2@yahoo.com
authors.forename: M Kemal
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Hamamcioglu
authors.forename: Tufan
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hicdonmez
authors.forename: Cumhur
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kilincer
authors.forename: Sebahattin
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Cobanoglu
mesh_terms: D000058:Accidental Falls; D002648:Child; D003388:Cranial Fossa, Posterior / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000293:injuries* / Q000601:surgery; D016489:Head Injuries, Closed; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D012886:Skull / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000254:growth & development* / Q000293:injuries* / Q000601:surgery; D012887:Skull Fractures / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed