Evaluation of the necessity of hospitalization in children with an isolated linear skull fracture (ISF)

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• 作者：Adi Reuveni-Salzman ; Guy Rosenthal ; Oded Poznanski ; Yigal Shoshan…
• 关键词：Skull fracture ; Hospitalization ; Medical costs ; Pediatric neurosurgery
• 刊名：Child's Nervous System
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：September 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：32
• 期：9
• 页码：1669-1674
• 全文大小：341 KB
• 刊物类别：Medicine
• 刊物主题：Medicine & Public Health
  Neurosurgery
  Neurosciences
  
• 出版者：Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
• ISSN：1433-0350
• 卷排序：32

文摘

ObjectiveThe prevalence of skull fractures after mild head trauma is 2 % in children of all ages and 11 % in children younger than 2 years. The current standard management for a child diagnosed with an isolated skull fracture (ISF), in our institute, is hospitalization for a 24-h observation period. Based on data from the literature, less than 1 % of all minor head injuries require neurosurgical intervention. The main objective of this study was to evaluate the risk of neurological deterioration of ISF cases, in order to assess the need for hospitalization.