{"title":"Non-traumatic head swellings in a child with a sickle cell disease presented to a tertiary hospital North of Tanzania: A case report","authors":"Isaac E. Mlay, R. Mbwasi","doi":"10.4314/thrb.v23i2.5","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract \nSickle cell is the commonest inherited haemoglobin disorder in Sub-Saharan Africa. Often patients present with painful crises in the extremities. But rarely non-traumatic Sub-galeal hematoma whose pathogenesis is not clearly defined, presenting with scalp swellings can occur. We present a case, nine years old male, with this uncommon complication which is also known as Acute Soft Head Syndrome and was managed conventionally at a tertiary hospital in Tanzania with hydration, analgesics, blood transfusion and antibiotics with marked improvement within a week. \n \n ","PeriodicalId":39815,"journal":{"name":"Tanzania Journal of Health Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Tanzania Journal of Health Research","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4314/thrb.v23i2.5","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"Medicine","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Sickle cell is the commonest inherited haemoglobin disorder in Sub-Saharan Africa. Often patients present with painful crises in the extremities. But rarely non-traumatic Sub-galeal hematoma whose pathogenesis is not clearly defined, presenting with scalp swellings can occur. We present a case, nine years old male, with this uncommon complication which is also known as Acute Soft Head Syndrome and was managed conventionally at a tertiary hospital in Tanzania with hydration, analgesics, blood transfusion and antibiotics with marked improvement within a week.