Subaponeurotic or subgaleal fluid collection is a rare but important cause of scalp swelling in young infants. Fluid in the subaponeurotic or subgaleal space presents as soft, ill-defined, fluctuant, highly mobile scalp swelling and is not limited ...

2024年2月28日 · Subaponeurotic fluid collections are a rare cause of head swelling in young neonates. They are thought to be due to birth trauma from assisted delivery, e.g. prolonged assisted delivery or ventouse delivery, with associated microfistula development that …

2018年3月15日 · These benign cerebrospinal fluid collections occur spontaneously between 1 and 4 months of age and are thought to be the delayed result of a traumatic labor and delivery. Patients have no other medical problems, recent trauma, or illness. Growth, development, and behavior are normal.

2021年7月1日 · Delayed subaponeurotic fluid collections (DSFCs) are a recently described cause of idiopathic scalp swelling in young infants. Associated with traumatic birth and the use of vacuum-assisted devices or fetal scalp electrodes, DSFCs can be differentiated from similar causes of neonatal scalp swelling …

Spontaneous subaponeurotic fluid collection (SSFC) is an uncommon and newly described entity of unknown etiology, observed in infants less than 1 year of age. The authors report on series of infants who presented to the Hospital for Sick Children (HSC) with SSFC, focusing on the natural history of this condition.

2016年6月1日 · A subaponeurotic (subgaleal) fluid collection is an extracranial accumulation of fluid occurring between the scalp aponeurosis and the periosteum that characteristically presents as a soft, nontender, ill-defined, highly mobile, fluctuant scalp swelling not limited by suture lines.

Schoberer et al5 reported a series of five cases of subaponeurotic fluid collection, four of which were large in size, presenting at 7–8 weeks after birth. Four of the infants were delivered by ventouse extraction and one was delivered by caesarean section after …

We are describing extremely rare and poorly understood soft swelling in the scalp which usually develops in infancy beyond the neonatal period. This condition is called delayed subaponeurotic or subgaleal fluid collection. In addition, we review all previously reported cases.

Delayed subaponeurotic fluid collection (DSFC) is a rare cause of scalp swelling that typically presents in healthy-term babies during the second month of life. It is a benign, self-limited condition that requires only conservative management.

2021年5月13日 · Delayed subaponeurotic fluid collections (DSFC) are rare entities and clinically distinct from other common causes of infant scalp swelling, which spontaneously occur between 4 and 18 weeks. 1 The pathophysiology of DSFC is not fully elucidated; however, most reported infants share a similar history of prolonged or instrumented delivery. 1–3 ...