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Clinical and experimental morphological study of depressed skull fracture

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Ninety-eight cases of depressed skull fractures, caused by various accidents, were treated. The morphological structures of the fractures were studied. Thirty-four depressed fractures were established experimentally, and a comparable study was performed. Clinically and experimentally I confirmed the same morphological reactions, that is, that the fractures of the inner region were always larger than those of the outer side, as a result of the direction of the impacting forces. The human skull suffers depressed fractures only because it has “HSH” (hard-soft-hard) histological structures. It is naturally disadvantaged.

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    Oh, S. Clinical and experimental morphological study of depressed skull fracture. Acta neurochir 68, 111–121 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01406207

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