Skull Fracture, Depressed

**Definition:** A skull fracture characterized by inward depression of a fragment or section of cranial bone, often compressing the underlying dura mater and brain. Depressed cranial fractures which feature open skin wounds that communicate with skull fragments are referred to as compound depressed skull fractures.

**Tree numbers:** - C10.900.300.918.300 - C26.404.750.890 - C26.915.300.745.350