[Growing cranial fractures in infancy (author's transl)].

Seventeen cases of growing cranial fractures in infancy are presented, eleven males and six females. Seventy per cent of the cases suffered a traumatic episode before one year of life. Thirteen of the total group experienced surgical intervention in which a completely defective duramater and alterations of the leptomeninges and the subsequent cerebral cortex were encountered. Leptomeningeal cysts were found in nine patients or 70 per cent of the cases. Ventricular system revealed alterations in all cases that were studied by means of neumoencephalography or computerized axial tomography. Evolution of 15 of the cases was follow up for a period of time which varied between five months to eleven years of age. An analysis of electroencephalographical alterations and neurological sequelae is made. An uncommon form of clinical-electroencephalographic evolution is described in one of the cases.