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Image of the Week: Post-traumatic pneumocephalus

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70 yr old presents after fall while walking with right forehead laceration with external evidence of depressed skull fracture. GCS 15/15.

The patient’s CT shows post-traumatic pneumocephalus with the characteristic radiologic finding of the “Mount Fuji sign,” or compression of the frontal lobes and widening of the interhemispheric space.

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Mt Fuji – the highest peak in Japan

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