title: Observations on 82 patients with extradural hematoma. Comparison of results before and after the advent of computerized tomography.
abstract: A consecutive, unselected series of 82 patients with epidural hematoma treated between 1973 and 1980 is presented. Forty-one patients were managed before the advent of computerized tomography (CT) and the other 41 after this neuroradiological method was available. Mortality and disability rates which were 29.2% and 31.7% during the pre-CT period decreased to 12.1% and 19.5%, respectively, with the aid of CT scanning. This technique allowed a more rapid and accurate diagnosis of the hematomas than angiography, and defined better the presence and the evolutional changes of the associated cerebral lesions. As a consequence, surgery has been more effectively planned and executed during the CT era.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003243:Consciousness; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006407:Hematoma, Epidural, Cranial / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000401:mortality / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007427:Intracranial Pressure; D008875:Middle Aged; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed