a cephalhaematoma is a bruise on a neonate's head resulting from prolonged stage II of labour or from instrumental delivery, especially ventouse
a cephalhaematoma represents a subperiostial swelling - therefore its boundaries is limited by the individual bone margins
the misshapen head can cause some parental alarm, but they can be reassured that it will resolve with time. The swelling is fluctuant
complications of very large cephalhaematomas include anaemia from the quantity of bleed into the haematoma and jaundice from haemolysis within it. These are rare.
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