Predicting dural tear in patients will skull fractures secondary to assault

ConclusionIn patients with a skull fracture secondary to assault considering the mechanism of injury being assaulted with a brick significantly excluded, and being stabbed in the head significantly predicted, the intra-operative finding of a dural tear. Considering pre-operative radiology having a depressed skull fracture, pneumocephalus, or intracerebral hematoma were each significant predictive variables of there being an intra-operative dural tear.
Source: Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery - Category: Neurosurgery Source Type: research