Growing Skull Fracture and Diastatic Skull Fracture in Pediatric Age Group their Types and Neurosurgical Repair with Technical Note

Abstract

Growing skull fracture or growing diastatic fractures are an important and not so common entity in infancy fracture of skull. It is characterized by the gradually enlarging fracture size with passage of time. When it becomes bigger enough it cause herniation and prolapse of brain structure and may lead to progressive neurological deficit. It treatment requires expertize in growing skull fracture micro neurosurgery and needs to close down the dural edges properly to prevent csf pulsations causing increase in size of fracture.