Compound Elevated Skull Fracture

Elevated skull fractures form a rare subset of compound skull fractures owing to the paucity of cases studied and reported.

Compound elevated skull fracture. Theoretically it should be possible to have skull fracture with a fragment elevated above the level of the intact skull bone. Compound elevated skull fracture. Should we incorporate in skull fracture classification. 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.

Compound elevated fracture of the skull is an unusual variety of fracture of the cranial vault that has been rarely described in the currently available literature. Compound elevated skull fracture unlike depressed skull fracture is an extremely rare variety of post traumatic cranial injury seldom seen in modern clinical practice. These lesions seldom recognized in modern clinical practice are first described in the oldest scientific and surgical treatise known the edwin smith surgical papyrus over 5000 years ago. This type of skull fracture is always compound in nature.

A depressed fracture by definition is any fracture with an in driven fracture fragment. Probably because of this fact the patient who sustain elevated compound fracture carries a better prognosis 2 3 5 6 9 the basic principles for the management of compound elevated skull fractures are same for any the other compound wound compound depressed skull fractures that is early recognition and prompt intervention broad spectrum antibiotics wound debridement removal of loose bone. There are different types of fracture but symptoms usually include a headache bruising and a loss of. Also known as a compound fracture an open fracture occurs when the skin is broken and the bone emerges.

Any of these can be simple closed or compound open. A skull fracture is a break in a skull bone and the primary cause is trauma to the head. Depressed facture this refers to a fracture that causes the skull to indent or extend into. A compound elevated skull fracture is a rare type of skull fracture where the fractured bone is elevated above the intact outer table of the skull.