I WAS concerned when I read about the little boy who had a fractured skull ("Medics Fail To Spot Broken Skull", October 27).
Five years ago my own daughter Aimee, who was six months old, had her head banged on a concrete floor in our house. We took her to hospital after a very large egg-shaped bump appeared on the back of her head.
The hospital did take X-rays and we were told that there was nothing wrong other than a bump.
Two weeks later, we received a phone call from the hospital saying my daughter had in fact got a hairline fracture of the skull but, because of her age, they could do nothing about it.
How many more cases have been missed?
M H Reeson,
Barbers Drive,
York.
Updated: 09:52 Tuesday, November 01, 2005
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