A cracking shot! depressed skull fracture sustained from a golf ball in a 16-year old

Rachel B McGuinness; Ibrahim Jalloh; Donald C Macarthur

doi:10.1080/02688697.2016.1199788

A cracking shot! depressed skull fracture sustained from a golf ball in a 16-year old

Br J Neurosurg. 2017 Oct;31(5):624-625. doi: 10.1080/02688697.2016.1199788. Epub 2016 Jun 24.

Authors

Rachel B McGuinness¹, Ibrahim Jalloh², Donald C Macarthur²

Affiliations

¹ a The Queen's Medical Centre, The University of Nottingham , Nottingham , UK.
² b Department of Neurosurgery , The Queen's Medical Centre , Nottingham , UK.

PMID: 27340736
DOI: 10.1080/02688697.2016.1199788

Abstract

Depressed skull fractures sustained from golf balls are quite rare. We report such a case in a 16-year old, and demonstrate its appearance in a 3D CT reconstruction.

Keywords: CT 3-Dimensional reconstruction; depressed skull fracture; golf ball.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Child
Golf / injuries*
Humans
Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
Male
Skull Fracture, Depressed / diagnostic imaging
Skull Fracture, Depressed / surgery*
Tomography, X-Ray Computed