Rita Calejo Pereira Machado Ribeiro
1, Mário Mateus
2, Marta Rosário
21Pediatrics and Neonatology Department, Tâmega e Sousa Local Health Unit, Penafiel, Portugal,
2Neonatology Unit, São João Local Health Unit, Porto, Portugal
Address for Correspondence: Rita Calejo, Avenida do Hospital Padre Américo 210, 4564-007 Guilhufe, Portugal.
Email: ritacalejor@gmail.com
Keywords : Cranial defect, Newborn, Aplasia Cutis Congenita
Question: Newborn girl from a monitored and uneventful 40 weeks pregnancy, born from a vacuum delivery without major trauma noticed. Apgar score of 9/10/10, at 1
st, 5
th and 10
th minutes. Weight, height an head circumference are adequate do gestational age. Scalp lesions noted at birth – shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1. Scalp lesions noted at birth.