title: [A girl with a lacunar skull].
abstract: Following trauma, an X-ray was made of the head of a 5-year-old mentally impaired girl. A lacunar skull ('Lückenschädel') was seen, which was a coincidental finding. A lacunar skull develops when the fetal skull is poorly ossificated, probably due to a lack of distention of the cerebral ventricles.
authors.affiliation: Sint Lucas Andreas Ziekenhuis, Amsterdam, afd. Kindergeneeskunde, The Netherlands. nadia.abdelmalik@gmail.com
authors.forename: Nadia
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Abdelmalik
authors.forename: Moniek E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Op de Coul
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D033162:Incidental Findings; D019989:Persons with Intellectual Disabilities; D011859:Radiography; D012886:Skull / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*