Open AccessElevated skull fractures - Too rare to care for, yet too common to ignore
Author(s) -
Viraat Harsh,
Vanya Vohra,
Pankaj Kumar,
Jayendra Kumar,
Chandra Bhushan Sahay,
Anil Kumar
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
asian journal of neurosurgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2248-9614
DOI - 10.4103/ajns.ajns_242_17
Subject(s) - medicine , skull , presentation (obstetrics) , skull fracture , surgery , pediatrics , treatment protocol , population , environmental health
Elevated skull fractures form a rare subset of compound skull fractures owing to the paucity of cases studied and reported. In this article, we present 17 cases of elevated skull fracture in a mixed population of adult and pediatric age groups which were operated over a period of 5 years (2012-2017) at our institute. We have discussed the mode of injury, clinical presentation, clinicoradiological findings, and treatment options highlighting the appropriate management strategies opted. Although elevated fractures are rare; issuing definite treatment protocol can reduce the morbidity and mortality of the patients.