Open AccessTRAFFIC ACCIDENTS
Author(s) -
Anwar Saood Saqib,
Muhammad Rehman Gulzar,
Irfan Ahmed Mughal
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
the professional medical journal/the professional medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2071-7733
pISSN - 1024-8919
DOI - 10.29309/tpmj/2009.16.02.2910
Subject(s) - medicine , skull , skull fracture , lesion , emergency department , surgery , pediatrics , psychiatry
O b j e c t i v e : To find out the correlation between different types of skull fractures and intracranial lesions in traffic accidents.Setting : Patients examined in surgical emergency Allied Hospital, Punjab Medical College, Faisalabad. D u r a t i o n : Two years from 1s tJanuary 1996 to 31 December 1997. Materials a n d M e t h o d s : In this study, the reports belonging to surviving 250 cases that had headinjuries in traffic accidents were examined retrospectively. Data was collected from surgical emergency record office. Collected informationwas analyzed with descriptive and inferential statistics. R e s u l t s : The rate of intracranial lesions among the cases with the skull fracture was39.0%, while the rate of skull fracture among the cases with the intracranial lesion was 50.3% (P < 0.001). Depressed fractures were morein males, while linear fractures were more in females as well as in young males as whole intracranial lesions were less in patients with skullfracture due to lower intra cranial pressure.