Unusual Resolution of a depressed skull fracture following repeat head trauma: the two-hit hypothesis?
An infant sustained a significant depressed skull fracture from a fall. Before the planned surgical repair of the fracture could be carried out, the child sustained a second fall that led to the complete resolution of the depressed fracture. Mechanisms to explain this unusual phenomenon are discussed.
Division of Pediatric Neurological Surgery, Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, Neurological Institute, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. alan.cohen@childrens.harvard.edu
Alan R
AR
Cohen
Biji
B
Bahuleyan
Shenandoah
S
Robinson
D000058:Accidental Falls; D006259:Craniocerebral Trauma / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography; D012008:Recurrence; D012075:Remission, Spontaneous; D020204:Skull Fracture, Depressed / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology*