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Crossed sagittal-suture cephalhaematoma

Department of Neonatology and Pediatric Radiology, Beilinson Medical Center, Petah Tiqva and the Tel Aviv University Sackler School of Medicine, Israel

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Cephalhaematoma is a traumatic lesion to the newborn skull, occurringmainly during labour. It is characterised by the collection of blood above the outer table of the skull and beneath the periosteal sheath. The haematoma is sharply limited at the edges of the bone where the pericranium (periosteum) is bound down tightly to the membranous tissue of the sutures. It appears as a prominence, most frequently on theparietal bones, confined within the sutural boundaries (Schaffer & Avery, 1977).

This paper presents a cephalhaematoma overlying a sagittal suture synostosis in a newborn baby. The practical consequences are discussed.

Received for publication October 1, 1984. Revision received April 1, 1985.

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