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KMID : 0378119780050020200
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Chungnam Medical Journal
1978 Volume.5 No. 2 p.200 ~ p.206
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A Radiologic Study on the Simple Skull Roentgenogram, in Head Trauma
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Abstract
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Along with the development of material civilization, various kinds of accidents including traffic accidents are on the steady increase.
Of these cases, the head trauma is very serious in condition and requires accurate diagnosis and treatment.
Oat of the 300 cases of head trauma patients, we observed how simple skull X-ray examination had influenced on the clinical diagnosis and treatment in Chungnam National University Hospital from April 1977 to March 1978.
1. Skull fracture detected in the 90 patients of 300 patients which were injured head trauma.
2. The sex and age incidence of head trauma were 229 men(76. 3%) and 71 women (23. 7%) and commonly noted in the second, third decade.
3. The commonest cause of head trauma was the traffic accident(42.7%) and the next were local trauma by object, falls.
4. The fracture of skull vault was most frequent and the linear fracture had a majority. 5. There was no specific relationship between the incidence of skull fracture, clinical symptoms, and physical findings.
6. The admission of patients were increased in the case of the detection of skull fracture but was not influenced the afterward treatment.
7. The mortality rate of head trauma was 11. 7% and in 19 patients (54.3%) were associated with fracture and in 16 patients (45.7%) were no fracture. There was no specific relationship between the mortality rate and skull fracture.
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