Two cases of acute epidural hematoma with rapid resolution followed by a benign clinical course are reported. Because of the concomitant increase in the epicranial hematoma over a linear skull fracture in each case, the acute epidural hematoma was presumed to have been decompressed into the epicranial region through the fracture line.
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