You are here

Article Text

Article menu
Download PDFPDF
Images in neonatal medicine
Depressed skull fracture in a newborn baby
  1. S T Dharmaraj1,
  2. N D Embleton1,
  3. A Jenkins2,
  4. G Jones3
  1. 1
    Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
  2. 2
    Department of Neurosurgery, Newcastle General Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
  3. 3
    Department of Paediatrics, Cumberland Infirmary, Carlisle, Cumbria, UK
  1. Dr S T Dharmaraj, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Queen Victoria Road, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4LP, UK; s.t.dharmaraj{at}doctors.org.uk

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/adc.2008.148718

Statistics from Altmetric.com

    A term baby was delivered by emergency caesarean section for failure to progress with an unstable lie. Forceps or vacuum extractor was not used. She was born in good condition requiring no resuscitation. Initial examination revealed a large depression over the right parietal bone measuring ∼6 cm in diameter and …

    View Full Text

    Footnotes

    • Competing interests: None.

    • Patient consent: Parental consent obtained.

    Request Permissions

    If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

    Copyright information:

    2009 BMJ Publishing Group and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health