TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2016//
TI  - Spectrum of skull fractures in traumatic brain injury-a cross sectional study
JO  - Indian journal of forensic medicine and toxicology
A1  - Reddy, Subba K.
A1  - Sukanya, P.
A1  - Khalid, Abdul M.
SP  - 197
EP  - 199
VL  - 10
IS  - 2
N2  - Background    Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a considerable cause of morbidity and mortality in India and around the world. Head injury provides one of the major contributions to death and better practical understanding of intracranial injuries is essential to the forensic expert. The cross sectional CT imaging makes the radiologic contribution to forensic autopsy more valuable and may improve accuracy of forensic investigation. To this reason we retrospectively evaluated the patterns of skull fractures on CT scan imaging of deceased patients.     Method    This cross sectional analysis was conducted in the department of forensic medicine Osmania medical college, Hyderabad over a period of two years. In this study, we reviewed images of all the deceased patients (died in our hospital) who underwent CT scanning at index admission for head injury. Demographic details and mode of injury was recorded from available data. Age was presented using mean and standard deviation, gender, mode of injury and type of skull fractures were presented as numbers and percentages.     Results    Linear skull fractures were 172 out of which RTA due to unknown was 99 followed by fall of unknown reason was 32, RTA fall from two wheeler was 32. The cause of death in all these cases was due to head injury associated with fracture of skull or intracranial hemorrhages or brain injury.     Conclusion    Majority of fatal head injuries are due to road traffic accidents (RTA) especially in younger and middle age, followed by fall from height. The common skull fracture type was linear (fissured) skull fractures followed by depressed fractures. Retrospective CT evaluated has reinforced reporting medico legal of these cases.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0973-9122
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.5958/0973-9130.2016.00093.1
ID  - ref1
ER  -