title: Post- traumatic compound elevated fracture of skull simulating a formal craniotomy.
abstract: Fracture of the cranial bones following trauma is common. The fracture most commonly encountered in clinical practice is an undisplaced linear fracture of a skull bone or a depressed skull fracture. Compound elevated skull fracture, unlike depressed skull fracture is an extremely rare variety of post-traumatic cranial injury, seldom seen in modern clinical practice. Authors report one such rare case of compound elevated skull fracture, simulating a formal frontoparietal craniotomy, in a 20-year-old male patient following a railway accident. The mechanism of its production as well as the management of such injury is discussed.
authors.affiliation: saaAll India Institute of Medical Sciences, Neurosurgery Department, New Delhi, India. saachin.aiims@gmail.com
authors.forename: Sachin A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Borkar
authors.forename: Sumit
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sinha
authors.forename: Bhavani Shankar
authors.initials: BS
authors.lastname: Sharma
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003399:Craniotomy; D005597:Fractures, Open / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012887:Skull Fractures / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed