Hallazgos tomográficos en pacientes con traumatismo craneoencefálico. Departamento de Imagenología. Hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso. Cuenca. Julio-diciembre, 2012.

Abstract

Objective. To determine the CT findings in patients with head injury. Methods. Descriptive study - retrospective study in which we worked with all tomographic reports of patients diagnosed with head trauma. Imaging Department, Hospital "Vicente Corral Moscoso" Basin City, during the period July to December 2012. Results. From reports the tomographic by sex (66.3%) were men, and women one (33.8%). The most common age group of patients who undergo a CT conducting plain skull is between 50 - 59 years old (41.50%), followed by (23.5%) between the ages of 40 -49 years. of (34.8%) were diagnosed with reports cerebral edema. (14.8%) with epidural hematomas. Subarachnoid hemorrhage is represented by a (10.8%). The most common site of injury was at the level of various locations (38.8%), followed by a (21.4%) in the frontal region. The (16.7%) and represents the open fractures (83.3%) of closed fractures. tomographic most common feature was blade with one (33%), and one (59%) mixed. There is little information on the characteristics of tomographic brain images present in head injury which does not allow a comparison of densities specific information provided is general. Conclusions. It is considered important to encourage student health areas deep analysis of imaging studies, particularly CT scan as it is today and complementary method for early diagnosis of the lesion