TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS

CORRELATION BETWEEN SKULL FRACTURES AND INTRACRANIAL LESIONS

Abstract

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 t
January 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 head
injuries in traffic accidents were examined retrospectively. Data was collected from surgical emergency record office. Collected information
was 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 was
39.0%, while the rate of skull fracture among the cases with the intracranial lesion was 50.3% (P < 0.001). Depressed fractures were more
in males, while linear fractures were more in females as well as in young males as whole intracranial lesions were less in patients with skull
fracture due to lower intra cranial pressure.