Infant skull fractures are birth injuries that affect the soft, vulnerable bones of the newborn skull. In most cases, damage is mild, but it can be ...
The bony skull of the newborn is histologically primary bone tissue and which is incomplete in its ossification process. During birth the pressure forces upon the ...
The most common cause of infant skull fractures is pressure from instruments used during childbirth. Doctors and others may use forceps or ...
Head molding is not an injury. Molding refers to the normal change in shape of the baby's head that results from pressure on the head during delivery. In most ...
Physical signs of a more severe skull fracture in a newborn may include swelling, a lump, or a depression on the head. There may be bruising ...
Skull fractures are likely most common during difficult deliveries, especially when a protracted labor indicates the use of birth-assistive devices.
Depressed fracture of the skull in a newborn infant at birth, although rare, has been reported with an incidence of 1 in 10,000 births. These cases involve mostly ...
A head injury is a broad term that describes a vast array of injuries that occur to the scalp, skull, brain, and underlying tissue and blood vessels in the child's ...
Skull fractures are most common during difficult deliveries, especially after a protracted (or very long) labor. Long deliveries increase the risk for a ...
Spontaneous elevation has been described in ping pong fractures that occurred after birth trauma, however, it is extremely rare in infants after head trauma 4.