Intrauterine Depressed Skull Fracture of the Newborn associated with Skull Capillary Hemangioma.

Lee, Seung Hoon; Wang, Kyu Chang; Cho, Byng Kyu; Sim, Bo Sung; Chi, Je G

Original Article

Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society 1983;12(1): 115-120.

Seung Hoon Lee, Kyu Chang Wang, Byng Kyu Cho, Bo Sung Sim, Je G Chi

¹Department of Neurosurgery, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.
²Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.

ABSTRACT

Authors experienced one case of intrauterine depressed skull fracture which associated with skull capillary hemangioma. In reviewing literatures, there are two types of intrauterine skull depression, traumatic and spontaneous. Pressure of the fetal head against maternal bony structures accounts for most of the so-called spontaneous type. Authors case was spontaneous type and associated with "fetal factor", congenital capillary hemangioma of the skull.

Key Words: Intrauterine depressed skull frecture; Congential capillary hemangioma of the skull; Spontaneous type; Traumatic type; Fetal factor