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SOME ASPECTS OF HEAD INJURIES IN INFANTS AND CHILDREN:I. General considerations Norio NAKAMURA 1 , Sbigeru KOBAYASHI 1 , Kimiyoshi HIRAKAWA 1 , Hisashi YAMADA 1 , Minoru JINBO 1 1Dept. of Neurosurgery, Tokyo Univ. School of Med. pp.667-676
Published Date 1965/7/1
DOI https://doi.org/10.11477/mf.1406201874
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During th last 15 years, from 1945 to 1963, 362 cases of head injuries in infants and children under the age of 15 years were admitted in the neurosur-gical department of the University of Tokyo Hospi-tal. The following facts were obtained by making a thorough study of these cases.

1) The incidence of patients by ages showed a gradual increase from newborn to 5-year-old and then declined gradually toward older age.

2) The main cause of the accident was:falls in 0-4 year-old, traffic accidents in 5-9 year-old, and falls, traffic accidents and sports in same frequency in 10-14 year-old children.

3) Simple depressed fracture was encountered more frequently in children than in adults; but frag-mented bones scarcely separated into pieces.

4) In cases of the fracture of the base of the skull, the manifestations of head injury were most severe but in general, cases of depressed fracture did not exhibit definite neurological deficit. These facts suggest that the impact of force as a result of injury has diffuse effect on the brain in the former, but almost on diffuse as well as localized effects in the latter in the early stage after head injury.

5) Compared to their body weight, occasionally, a negligible force of energy was sufficient to break the skull of children; on the other hand, a consider-able amount of energy was necessary to bring about any definite neurological manifestations.

6) If a child fortunately managed to overcome early death after trauma, then the patient had a good chance of unexpectedly rapid and uneventful recovery.


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