Toddler who was being swung overhead and was accidentally dropped 6 feet

Neurological
Radiograph of stellate skull fracture and CT of acute subdural hematoma due to accidental trauma
AP and lateral radiographs of the skull show numerous branching lucencies in the right parietal bone. Axial CT without contrast of the brain shows high density material in the right subgaleal tissues, a small high density cresenteric fluid collection in the right extra-axial space that extends posteriorly along the falx, and a mixed low-density and high density lesion in the right posterior parietal brain parenchyma.

The diagnosis was a right subgaleal hematoma, right acute stellate skull fracture, right acute subdural hematoma with interhemispheric extension, and a right posterior cerebral contusion in a patient with accidental trauma.

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