Here we present a very rare case of a woman with a bone fragment in the third ventricle of the brain following compound-depressed skull fractures due to a road traffic accident. There are only few case reports of bullets and textiloma being removed from the third ventricle. Following operative removal of the fragment, the patient was started on cortisol, mineralocorticoid and thyroid hormone re...

OBJECT Children 0-3 years old present a completely different neurotraumatic pathology. The growing and the development processes in this age group imply specific anatomical and pathophysiological features of the skull, subarachnoid space, CSF flow, and brain. Most common specific neurotraumatic entities in children 0-3 years old are cephalhematoma, subaponeurotic (subgaleal) hematoma, diastatic...

Linear and depressed skull fractures are frequent mechanisms of head injury and are often associated with traumatic brain injury. Accurate knowledge of the fracture of cranial bone can provide insight into the prevention of skull fracture injuries. A set of cranial bone specimens were extracted from 8 crania and, after !CT imaging, the specimens were tested in a three-point bend set-up at dynam...

space four inches square. On the right side, the occipital bone was also fractured and depressed, and the brain beneath was much injured and compressed. There was a hernia of a portion of the right lobe of the cerebrum at its posterior part. The left forearm was extensively fractured a little below the elbow joint. The man could not speak, but it was ascertained that he had been knocked down an...

F c ince the first description of a surgical reduction of a ygoma fracture by Duverney in 1751, many varying ethods of treatment have been described. Both inraoral and extraoral methods have become commonlace. The transoral approach was popularized by Keen n 1909, with later modifications by Goldthwaite and uinn. These techniques offer the advantages of avoidng any skin incision, thereby avoidi...