@article{Ramanana Rao_NVP_K S_Chandra_2020, title={Role of Computed Tomography (CT) in traumatic head injury evaluation – a cross-sectional study}, volume={8}, url={https://ijmrr.medresearch.in/index.php/ijmrr/article/view/1138}, DOI={10.17511/10.17511/ijmrr.2020.i01.06}, abstractNote={<p>Introduction: CT is the single primary modality in the evaluation of patients with acute head injuries. With these, a study was taken to find various clinico radiological patterns of head injuries and to correlate the CT features with clinical operative findings.</p> <p>Materials and Methods: This was a cross-sectional study carried in patients of head injury. The patients with a head injury, craniofacial trauma who underwent CT scanning were included in the study. Patients on the ventilator and with Glasgow coma scale &lt;6 were excluded. Patients were scanned using dual Slice CT, Siemens somatom Emotion duo. A P-value of less than 0.05 was considered statistically significant.</p> <p>Results: Total 223 patients were included, 76.2% were males and 73.5% were abnormal scans. Among all intracranial traumatic lesions (ITL) the incidence of multiple ITLs were the most common (35%) and the death rate was 12.6%. Temporal bone fractures (15.2%) were the highest.</p> <p>Conclusion: It was concluded that 21 – 40 years is the typical age group for head injuries, common among male and the incidence of mortality rate is more &gt; 61 years. MICTLs are the most frequent type of hematomas.</p&gt;}, number={1}, journal={International Journal of Medical Research and Review}, author={Ramanana Rao, D Venkata and NVP, Dr. Vinay and K S, Suneetha and Chandra, T. Jaya}, year={2020}, month={Feb.}, pages={40-44} }