Fractures which involve the whole thickness of the skull may be:—
(a) Simple or compound.
(b) With or without depression.
When depressed, the fragments of bone may be either loose or interlocked, forming in the latter case the so-called pond and gutter fractures.
(c) Elevated, usually from sabre-cuts.
(d) Fissured, stellate, comminuted, punctured, &c.
(e) Explosive.
Symptoms associated with fracture of the vault.
A diagnosis of fracture of the vault is made:—
On the evidence obtained by local examination.