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    Traumatic Subperiosteal Haematoma of the Femur in the Newborn

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    Subperiosteal haemorrhage usually accompanies fracture of a long bone at birth. The occurrence at birth of a subperiosteal haematoma without fracture was not widely recognized until attention was drawn to the condition by Snedecor, Knapp and Wilson (1935), who called it 'traumatic ossifying perios-titis'. A few other reports of this type of birth injury were subsequently published under such titles as periosteal stripping (Burman and Langsam, 1939), neonatal contusion (Caffey, 1945) and ossify-ing haematoma (Brailsford, 1948), and the subject was later reviewed by Snedecor and Wilson (1949). The number of reported cases is still small, and no pathological studies have yet been published; we therefore present two cases, one of which wa
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