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KMID : 0377619730250030366
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Korean Jungang Medical Journal
1973 Volume.25 No. 3 p.366 ~ p.368
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Temporal Bone Fracture
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Abstract
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Today, trauma to the head is the devastating plaque facing any human being. The more actively one participates in life, the more danger one faces; thus, the young are the most vulnerable.
It is startling to realize that the major health problem in persons is now automobile accidents.
More people are killed and injured by this means than by any other cause. Almost 75 per cent of these vehicular accidents involve the head; furthermore, when the head is severely injured, the ear is the most frequently damaged sensory
organ.
Much could be said in regard to prevention. Until recently it was thought that nothing could be done to correct the hearing Ioss caused by skull trauma. This was due to a general misconception that any permanent hearing loss secondary to skull trauma was due cochlear damage and, therefore, irreparable. But after the first discoveries of injury to the ossicular chain resu-lting from skull fracture in the Iiving in 1956 by Thorburn and Hough, much progress has been made in the diagnosis and management for that.
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