Open AccessSkull X-ray Criteria Endorsed by the Food and Drug Administration
Author(s) -
Howard A. Freed
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
neurosurgery/neurosurgery online
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.485
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1081-1281
pISSN - 0148-396X
DOI - 10.1227/00006123-198012000-00023
Subject(s) - medicine , skull , food and drug administration , occult , skull fracture , surgery , medical emergency , pathology , alternative medicine
Some skull fractures may be overlooked if the current FDA-endorsed criteria for ordering roentgenograms of the skull are followed strictly. Such cases raise the issues of the applicability of the criteria to children, the omission from the criteria of factors that are associated with skull fracture, and the fact that the criteria as currently written seem to miss certain types of occult open and depressed fractures. Modifications of two of the criteria are suggested.