A growing skull fracture or leptomeningeal cyst most commonly occurs in children 
under the age of 3 years, and is extremely rare in adults. The reason for a 
growing skull fracture is usually a dural tear in association with the fracture. 
This paper presents an 18-year-old mentally retarded patient with cerebral 
hemiatrophy (Dyke-Davidoff-Masson syndrome) associated with a growing skull 
fracture in the ipsilateral hemicranium, in whom not only a dural tear but also 
the ipsilaterally displaced and dilated lateral ventricle due to the original 
disease apparently contributed to the development of growing skull fracture.