Mount Fuji sign with concavo-convex appearance of epidural haematoma in a patient with tension pneumocephalus
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Mount Fuji sign with concavo-convex appearance of epidural haematoma in a patient with tension pneumocephalus.
Intracranial pneumatocele is a non-infected accumulation of air within the cranial cavity. We report a case of a 22-year-old male who sustained a fracture of anterior cranial fossa following a motor vehicle accident and the imaging findings showed a concave-convex epidural haematoma. Simple traumatic pneumocephalus usually does not require surgical treatment and non-operative management has bee...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Radiology Case Reports
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1943-0922
DOI: 10.3941/jrcr.v3i1.100