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Abstract
This series surveys the patients received at Benha
Teaching Hospital over a period of six months from the beginnig
of July to the end of December 1982, who sustained
cerebral injuries with other trauma or traumata:
1) The total number of the studied cases was 130 patients,
all of them were diagnosed to have ”post concussion
state” in addition to other trauma or traumata.
2) Males constituted 72,31% (94 cases), and females constituted
27,69% -36 cases) .•
3) The seasonal incidence was higher during December and
was lower in JUly and August 1982.
4) The highest age incidence range (21-30 years) (30,77%
of the cases).
5) Accidents constituted the majority of cases 67,69%
(88 cases), criminal assaults were in 41 cases (31,54%),
and only one case of self-extermination.
6) The incidence of injuries was 2,6 injuries per patient.
7) Road accidents were the causes of injuries in 37,69% of the
all cases.
8) Most of the patients had only ·tow injuries (head injury
and another body trauma) (54,62% of the cases).
9) The most frequent injuries were scalp and facial injuries,
skull fractures, lower limbs fractures, upper limbs
fractures, chest injuries, wounds of limbs, abdominal
injuries and spinal injuries, in that order of frequency.
(Table V).
10) The mortality rate was 20,76% (in 27 cases).
11) Skull fractures constituted 51,85% of fatal cases (14
cases), and it seemed to be the major cause of death in
this series, followed by chest injuries, scalp and facial
injuries, and abdominal injuries.
12) The association of chest injuries, abdominal injuries or
pelvic fractures with head injuries was a grave condition.
13) Finally, we recommend a better arcbives and notes recording
system, and a nation-lICideimprovement in the ambulance
and emergency care system.