Head injury is common and can be associated with significant morbidity and mortality. We report a 71-year-old man with typical imaging findings of depressed skull fracture on plain film and computed tomography with images in multi-planar reformat and 3-dimensional volume rendering technique, followed by a brief review of the literature.
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