An unusual variant of a growing skull fracture in an adolescent

Pediatric Neurosurgery

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 36-39

  Çolak, Ahmet ^a,c   Akbaşak, Aytaç ^b   Biliciler, Bülent ^b   Erten, Serhat Fuat ^b   Koçak, Ayhan ^b  

^a Rize Devlet Hastanesi   (Turkey)

^b INONU UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c Famesan   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Adolescent; Computed tomography; Growing skull fracture; Magnetic resonance imaging; Orbital roof

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOTOMY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DURA MATER; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MENINGOCELE; ORBIT INJURY; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SKULL FRACTURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARACHNOID CYSTS; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORBITAL FRACTURES; SKULL FRACTURES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0032464542     PISSN: 10162291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000028682     Document Type: Article

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