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Growing skull fracture: a posttraumatic neosuture
1Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. Pbdrapkin@aol.com
Context:
A case of a growing skull fracture presenting in adulthood is reported. Pertinent literature was reviewed with an emphasis on pathogenesis.
Evidence Acquisition:
A search through MEDLINE from 1994 through 2004 was used and supplemented by searches of secondary sources retrieved from referenced articles.
Evidence Synthesis:
Current hypotheses for the pathogenesis of growing skull fractures were critically analyzed. A new hypothesis based in more recent data is proposed in an attempt to better understand this process.
Conclusions:
The proposed hypothesis seems to explain better the timing in which the clinical features in growing skull fracture develop.
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