- Etiology: trauma
- Imaging:
— Linear – simple fracture with the skull fragments closely approximated
— Diastatic – complex fracture with the skull fragments spread apart
— Depressed – complex fracture with the skull fragments entering into the cranium
— Ping Pong – etiology is depression of plastic fetal skull against maternal sacral promontory or forceps, usually no intracranial injury, clinically spontaneously resolve
— Growing (leptomeningeal cyst) – etiology is following diastatic fracture, dura is interrupted and there is erosion of fracture edges due to CSF pulsation, clinically is unique to infants less than 3 years old,
— Healing – skull fracture, which involve membranous bone, heals without periosteal reaction and slowly disappears - DDX: accessory suture, vascular groove, Wormian bones are fracture mimics
Radiology Cases of Skull Fracture
Radiology Cases of Linear Skull Fracture




Radiology Cases of Diastatic Skull Fracture


Radiology Cases of Depressed Skull Fracture

Radiology Cases of Growing Skull Fracture

Radiology Cases of Healing Skull Fracture
