Characteristics of Calvaria Depression Fractures Patients in Dr. Kariadi General Hospital, Semarang

Introduction. Head injury is one of trauma cases with high morbidity and mortality,with an incidence of 7.3 to 811 cases per 100.000 individuals per year and mortalityratio varying from 5.2 to 80.73 cases per 100.000 cases. Calvaria fractures that resultfrom head injuries are often associated with risk of post-traumatic morbidity andmortality, where the incidence of post-trauma calvaria fractures is about 25% of allcases and around 10% of calvaria fractures are depressed calvaria fractures. Thisstudy was aimed to identify the characteristics of patients with depressed calvariafractures at Dr. Kariadi General Hospital in 2020. Methods. This research is adescriptive study using secondary data from medical records. There were 30 patientswith depressed calvaria fractures in January - December 2020 at Dr. Kariadi Hospital.The data is then presented in tabular form. Results. Depressed calvaria fractures inthe period 2020 at Dr. Kariadi General Hospital was dominated by male (76.7%),mainly age 12-45 years old with a mean of 25.73 years old. The most common causeof depressed calvaria fractures is high velocity trauma. Minor head injury is the mostcommon type of head injury. Depressed calvaria fractures of the frontal bonepredominate in 80% of cases, with fracture depth > 1 tabula. Conclusion: There wereno cases of posttraumatic infection. There were 16.7% of cases with neurologicaldeficits at the time of discharge. There were 73.3% cases with other intracranialdisorders associated with depressed calvaria fractures. Operative management is themain choice of management with most cases length of stay are 5-10 days.