Growing skull fracture: a posttraumatic neosuture.
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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