title: [A case of multiple trauma with sinking skull, whose life was saved by consistent team medical treatment].
abstract: A 54 year old man was brought to our hospital by ambulance. He had been injured by falling heavy steel. An examination was performed, and he was diag nosed as having sinking skull, acute extradural hematoma, trauma of the righ eye, right eye laceration, injury of the optic canal (right blind), and multipl fractures. Open fractures were observed in the right ring finger and little finger Simple fractures were observed in the zygomatic bone nasal bone and maxillary bone. An emergency operation (external skeletal fixation, taxis of the skull and maxillary bone, extradural hematoma depletion, suture of right eyelid) was performed. His life was saved by consistent team treatment from preoperation t postoperation. He was discharged from our hospital on foot at 45 days after th operation.
authors.affiliation: Division of Emergent and Critical Care of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Yahatanishi-ku, Kitakyushu 807-8555, Japan.
authors.forename: Teruo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Iwata
authors.forename: Kensou
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Iwamoto
authors.forename: Yuuya
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Miyazaki
authors.forename: Nobuya
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Harayama
authors.forename: Masaru
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nagato
authors.forename: Syunichi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nihei
authors.forename: Takahisa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tanigawa
authors.forename: Keiji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Aibara
authors.forename: Masayuki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kamochi
authors.forename: Yoshiteru
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nakano
authors.forename: Takumi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sozen
authors.forename: Shigeru
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nishizawa
mesh_terms: D003422:Critical Care; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009104:Multiple Trauma / Q000628:therapy*; D010348:Patient Care Team; D020204:Skull Fracture, Depressed / Q000628:therapy*