This is subperiosteal haemorrhage due to rupture of blood vessels  most often due to a traumatic delivery

Most commonly seen in the parietal or frontal bone area

Clinical features

• Swelling appears and increases over the days after birth
• This swelling can be unilateral just over the place of traumatic delivery
• The swelling is limited to one cranial bone
• Sharply demarcated boundaries are palpable   

Investigations

• By radiological finding, the swelling begins to calcify by 2nd week
• It can appear as cystic defects over the years

Treatment

• No treatment- Most cephalhematoma are absorbed by 6- 12 weeks
• Control jaundice by phototherapy

Complications

• Anaemia/ Jaundice
• Abscess formation of cephalhematoma
• Fracture during traumatic delivery should be ruled out