title: Intrauterine depressed skull fracture with spontaneous resolution.
abstract: We describe a full term male infant born by cesarean section, who presented a deep round depression of the left parietal bone at birth. MRI scan showed no signal alteration on cortical and sub-cortical level in correspondence of the depressed skull fracture. At four months of age, a skull X-ray was normal. At 18 months of age growth and neurologic follow-up is normal.
authors.affiliation: Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Department of Pediatrics, University of Verona. simone.rugolotto@azosp.vr.it
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rugolotto
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Grippaldi
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Sidoti
authors.forename: E M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Padovani
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D005315:Fetal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D010294:Parietal Bone / Q000293:injuries* / Q000473:pathology*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011296:Prenatal Diagnosis; D012075:Remission, Spontaneous; D020204:Skull Fracture, Depressed / Q000473:pathology*