Suture diastasis

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Suture diastasis is defined as traumatic opening along a suture. This does not involve a fracture of the bone itself, but rather tearing of the fibrous suture between two cranial bones.

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Suture diastasis can be optimally visualized on CT imaging.

Diastasis of cranial sutures on CT
Visualization of diastasis of the sagittal suture and the left lambdoid suture in a 3D skull reconstruction from a CT scan of a patient with severe traumatic brain injury.

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