TY - JOUR PY - 1976// TI - Compound elevated fractures of the skull JO - Journal of neurosurgery A1 - Ralston, B. L. SP - 77 EP - 79 VL - 44 IS - 1 N2 - The author presents two cases of compound elevated fractures of the skull and discusses the mechanics of their production. These lesions, seldom recognized in modern clinical practice, are first described in the oldest scientific and surgical treatise known, the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, over 5000 years ago.
Language: en
LA - en SN - 0022-3085 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.3171/jns.1976.44.1.0077 ID - ref1 ER -