Study of Head Injuries by Using CT Scan

Abstract

The objective of this research is to study the role of CT scan in earliest and fastest in diagnostic head injuries, and classification of this type of trauma by the main cause of this TBI and type of lesion occur and type of hemorrhage occur and effect of this lesion in the midline cause shift or not. This study is done in khhartoum state into two centers khartoum advanced diagnostic center and khartoum hospital. In this study 51 Pt ,71% male and 29% female with variable age are groped into 8 groups. The main findings of this 24 were positive and 27 were negative with percent 47.1% and 52.9% and most common cause of trama is RTA with percent 70,6%. The most type of lesion occur is H occur is extradural and cerebral H with same percent 41.7%, 41.7% and site of fracture is most common in facial bone with percent 59.1% than the other site and then study mid line shift at epidural from total sample in 4 Pts and supdural 2 Pts cerebral contusion is one Pt. Finally CT is the first choice to diagnose head injuries than other modality because it take short scan time.