Pediatric Skull Fracture
The incidence of skull fractures in children who present for outpatient evaluation of head trauma ranges from 2 to 20 percent.
The parietal bone is involved most frequently, followed by the occipital, frontal, and temporal bones. Linear fractures are most common, followed by depressed and basilar fractures.
The causes of skull fracture and the causes of head injury typically are not separated in the literature except for infants, who are at increased risk of skull fractures from minor mechanisms of trauma