FREQUENCY Of CRANIAL VAULT FRACTURES IN PATIENTS WITH HEAD INJURY

Abstract

ABSTRACT:
INTRODUCTION: The rate of frontal bone injury has been accounted for to be as high of all
instances of skull fractures in patients with a head injury. The frontal bone is the fundamental bone
in the brow territory. OBJECTIVE: The purpose is to investigate the frequency of cases and cause
of head injury in patients. A one year (2019) retrospective study of head-injured patients.
PATIENTS AND METHODS: Cause of injury, and radiological findings were analyzed of 521
patients in which the majority of patients are from rural dwellers 291 (55/9%) than urban dwellers
230 (44.1%) correspondingly. RESULT: The total number of cases of head injury in Radiology
and Forensic Medicine Department Peoples Medical College Hospital Nawabshah in the year 2019
was 521 cases, out of those cases violent head injury was the common cause of head injury in
patients 209 (38.4%). The 521 patients in which most injured cranial bone is Frontal bone 217
(39.9%). CONCLUSION: The study highlight that most of the patients are from rural and among
them, the most common cause of head injury is violent assault and mostly injured cranial bone
injury is frontal bone