1Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, Chintpurni Medical College and Hospital, Pathankot, Punjab
2Professor and Head, Department of Forensic Medicine, Santosh Medical College and Hospital, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh
3Professor and Head, Department of Forensic Medicine, Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector-32, Chandigarh, India
4Professor and Head, Department of General Surgery, Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector-32, Chandigarh, India
5Professor and Head, Department of Radiodiagnosis, Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector-32, Chandigarh, India
Online published on 23 July, 2013.
Brain tissue injury and the intracranial hemorrhage due to skull fracture are the known conditions among accident victims that potentially threaten the human life. Location and type of injury/hemorrhage for brain determines the state of health or death.
To study the type and pattern of skull fracture, intracranial hemorrhage and brain tissue injury among accident deceased at hospitals, Chandigarh, India.
Hospital based cross-sectional study.
Post-mortem of the deceased.
Road traffic injury (RTI) was observed among 78 of total 87 studied deceased. Head injury with skull fracture found to be associated with road traffic accident (92.8%) among total 87 deceased. Linear fracture involving frontal and parietal bone of skull was common (36.7%). Intracranial hemorrhage (Subdural; 43.1%: Extradural; 31.9%: Subarachnoid; 19.4%: Intacerebral; 5.6%), contusion and edema were commonly associated observations.
Intracranial hemorrhage is most common associated finding and possible reason for death among deceased due to head injury, being RTI is most common cause for head injury.
Road Traffic Injury, Skull Fracture, Hemorrhage
