Account of a case of external and internal cephalhaematoma, complicated with fracture of the right parietal bone, in a new-born infant / [Charles West].

  • West, Charles, 1816-1898
Date:
1843
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Credit: Account of a case of external and internal cephalhaematoma, complicated with fracture of the right parietal bone, in a new-born infant / [Charles West]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the whole of the fossa of the parietal bone. The tumour thus formed was of an oval shape, and its surface was slightly irregular. Between the two layers of the dura mater, by which it was covered, were numerous bony deposits, and a ring of newly- formed bone surrounded its base. This ring had not attained the same development in its whole circumference; osseous matter having been abun¬ dantly poured out along the frontal margin of the tumour, more sparingly elsewhere, and being en¬ tirely absent along its inner border. It appeared to have been formed partly by ossification of the dura mater, partly by heaping up of new bone on the inner surface of the skull. It would have been impossible to ascertain whether the inner table of the skull had contributed, like the outer table, to the process of reparation, by the deposit of new bone, except by the complete removal of the clot, and consequent destruction of the preparation. The clot, therefore, was raised at one edge only, but in that situation the bone was perfectly smooth and unaltered. The blood appeared to have been poured out in successive layers, none of which, however, seemed of very recent date, since all were firmly coagulated, though the red particles had not sub¬ sided, but remained equally diffused throughout the clot.# The rest of the interior of the skull and the dura mater presented no unnatural appearance. There was a depression of the right hemisphere of the