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KMID : 0377519870120040567
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Chung-Ang Journal of Medicine
1987 Volume.12 No. 4 p.567 ~ p.577
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A Clinical Analysis of Craniocerebral Injuries in Adults
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Abstract
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The authors reviewed 3568 patients who sustained craniocerebrai injury from January 1970 to December 1986. We divided them into two groups in accordance with CT availability and obtained the following results.
1) There were 2320 males and 1248 females. "
2) The most common cause of head injury was traffic accident. The second was a fall.
3) Of the 589 cases of skull fractures, 315 were linear and most of them (88%) were simple in
nature. The depressed fractures were seen in 146 cases and most of them (7417o) were
compound.
4) Of the 452 patients with intracranial hemorrhage, epidural and subdural hematoma were found in 208 and 190 cases. The predilection site of epidural hematoma was temporal region and subdural hematoma was frontotemporoparietal region.
5) 64% of the cases with intracranial hemorrhagic lesions were associated with skull fractures and 38% of skull fractures coexisted with intracranial hemorrhage.
6) Overall mortality rate of the head injured patient was 6.4%
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