Dating skull fractures

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The radiological dating of injuries.

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Useful Links Skull Fractures Where a skull fracture is identified in a child, there will be concerns about how it has been caused and whether it was a result of non-accidental injury. If a non-accidental injury is suspected within care proceedings, often a medical expert neuroradiologist will be instructed to consider the injury and any explanations for it. I hope the following may explain a little about the skull and skull fractures. As the largest bone, the parietal bone is the most likely bone to fracture in an accident. Subsequently, suspicion often arises if it is one of the other bones that has fractured. Types of Fracture Unless there is some kind of underlying bone disease, a skull fracture means that there has been an impact to the head of some kind.

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The indications of routine skull X-rays after mild head trauma are still in discussion, and the clinical management of a child with a skull fracture remains controversial. The aim of our retrospective study was to evaluate our diagnostic and clinical management of children with skull fractures following minor head trauma. We worked up the medical history of all consecutive patients with a skull fracture treated in our hospital from January to October and investigated all skull X-rays in our hospital during this period.

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Skull Fractures

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