Midline depressed skull fracture presenting with quadriplegia: A rare phenomenon

Paraperesis: a rare complication after depressed skull fracture

Depressed skull fracture is an inward buckling of the skull bones, often because of direct blow to a small surface area of the skull with a blunt object. Monoparesis is often among its clinical presentations, but midline depressed skull fracture presenting as motor weakness of both lower limbs (Paraperesis) has not yet been reported. We report the case of 55 year old male admitted to emergency ...

A Depressed Compound Fracture of the Skull with Infection

The patient was admitted into the hospital on 25th July, 1934, with a contused wound on the head. On examination an infected wound was seen on the right side of the forehead 1 inch above the right eyebrow; it measured f inch long and extended down to the bone. The frontal bone was fractured and depressed and the patient deeply unconscious. There was marked ecchymosis of both the eyelids and the...

Case of Compound Depressed Fracture of Skull

perature 99*8?; one copious stool. 13tli.?Temperature 98-2?. 14th.?Temperature (J8*4?, wound suppurated, feels better. 4 P. M. temperature 99-2?. 15th.?Temperature 98-4? ; sits up in bed, looks cheerful. 4 P. M. temperature 103?, had slight shivering. Kith.?Temperature 100-8?, some swelling and tension?on the left side of the wound, could not sleep last night. 4 p. m. temperature 102-4?, had sl...

A Case of Depressed Fracture of the Skull

A Case of Compound Depressed Fracture of the Skull.—Recovery

ture for some days and hernia cerebri set in. Every morning some brain substance came away and f ungated out of the wound; after ten days it became obvious that certain cerebral symptoms were setting in. She complained of great pain in the head, and giddiness and vomiting, she had lost her memory for visual words that is to say, her visual word dictionary in the angular gyrus was wiped out and ...