title: Severe head injury in a paediatric population.
abstract: Forty eight, patients under fourteen years of age, with severe head injury, who were admitted to the Children's Hospital, over a a period of 4 years were studied. During the same period 2500 children with head injury admitted, an incidence 2% approx. The low mortality and the good prognosis of these children is pointed out. The literature is also reviewed and a few conceptions regarding treatment, age of the patients in various series and intracranial haematomas were reconsidered. Extradural and subdural haematomas are excluded from this particular study.
authors.affiliation: Neurosurgical Department, Aglaia Kyriakou Children's Hospital, Athens, Greece.
authors.forename: E G
authors.initials: EG
authors.lastname: Singounas
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001924:Brain Concussion / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D001929:Brain Edema / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy; D002561:Cerebrovascular Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006259:Craniocerebral Trauma / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D015600:Glasgow Coma Scale; D006115:Greece / Q000453:epidemiology; D006429:Hemiplegia / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D012887:Skull Fractures / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology