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- Title
Isolated Traumatic Diastasis of the Clival Synchondroses without Clival Fracture.
- Authors
Faraji, Amir H.; Ochalski, Pawel G.; Ozpinar, Alp; Blatt, Jason E.; Pollack, Ian F.
- Abstract
Traumatic clival fractures in the pediatric population are associated with high mortality rates. In our previously reported series, a subset of clival fractures were associated with traumatic diastasis of the surrounding clival synchondroses. Herein, we describe a pediatric case of an isolated traumatic diastasis of the clival synchondroses without clival fracture with significant injury to neurovascular structures. To our knowledge this is the first report to describe this entity. Careful radiological attention should be made towards the clival synchondroses in crushing head injuries to best tailor screening for cerebrovascular injury even in the absence of clival fractures.
- Subjects
BRAIN injuries; SKULL fractures; APHASIA; ETIOLOGY of diseases; COMPUTED tomography
- Publication
Pediatric Neurosurgery, 2018, Vol 53, Issue 4, p270
- ISSN
1016-2291
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.1159/000488058