Non-traumatic head swellings in a child with a sickle cell disease presented to a tertiary hospital North of Tanzania: A case report

Abstract

Abstract

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.