Characteristics of the treatment of the epidural hematomas in infancy and childhood.
Age dependent characteristics of the clinical course of traumatic epidural hematomas of the infant and child have been summarized in a survey of 34 cases. Establishing the diagnosis of epidural hematoma is not an immediate indication of surgery in the infant, because there are cases of spontaneous drainage of the hematoma from the intracranial spaces (3 cases), after 2-3 days of observation the surgery could be carried out in an improved pediatric condition (8 cases) and like in the presented survey, there were only (9 cases), when an immediate surgery had the be done. For the children above the age of 2 years the indication for an immediate surgery was not different in nature from that of the adults.
D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000150:complications; D002533:Cerebral Angiography; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006407:Hematoma, Epidural, Cranial / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011379:Prognosis; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed