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Frontal Parietal Temporo parietal Temporal Fronto temporal Frontoparietal Posterior fossa
Source of Bleeding Table 3. Volume of hematoma in relation with location, motor re-
The source of bleeding was arterial in 196 patients, sponse, age, and time between trauma to surgery
whereas it was due to the partial tear of dural venous
Location of hematoma Volume of hematoma, mL
sinuses in 8 patients. The source of bleeding could not be
identified in 24 patients as bleeding had already stopped 30–50 >50 mL
(n = 186) (n = 42)
due to compression by the hematoma.
Frontal 54 12
Volume of Hematoma Parietal 38 16
Temporo-parietal 36 4
Majority of the patients (n = 186, 81.6%) had a hema- Temporal 26 4
toma size of 30–50 mL, whereas it was >50 mL in only 42 Fronto-temporal 12 2
patients (18.4%). The relationship of the volume with lo- Bifrontal 7 1
Fronto-parietal 6 2
cation of hematoma was not significant (χ2 = 5.910, p = Posterior fossa 7 1
0.749; Table 3). Motor response (M)
M1–M2 2 12
M3–M4 6 12
Time between Trauma to Surgery M5–M6 178 18
Within 6–24 h after injury, 100 patients (43.8%) were Age, years
operated. About 90 patients were operated within 6 h ≤6 43 3
7–12 51 9
(39.5%) and only 38 patients had undergone surgery after 13–18 92 30
24 h (16.7%). Statistically significant association was pres- Time from injury to time of surgery, h
ent between volume and time between trauma and sur- <6 77 13
6–24 93 7
gery (χ2 = 8.469, p ≤ 0.05; Table 3). >24 16 22
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Fig. 2. Patients with various motor re- M6 M5 M4 M3 M2 M1
sponses.
NSNR 57 46 34 26 12 8 7 6 196
Anisocoria 2 5 6 3 1 0 1 0 18
CNBT 7 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 8
Dilated and fixed 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 2 6
Total 66 54 40 30 14 8 8 8 228
NSNR, normal size and normal reaction; CNBT, could not be tested.
had dilated and fixed pupil. The relationship between pu- patient of bifrontal EDH was reoperated as bleeding per-
pillary abnormality and the site of hematoma was found to sisted from the tear in superior sagittal sinus. One pa-
be statistically significant (χ2 = 139.8, p = 0.003; Table 4). tient developed superficial wound infection which was
managed successfully with antibiotics and antiseptic
Hospital Stay dressing, whereas another patient required removal of
Except for the 16 mortality, majority of the patients the bone flap for which cranioplasty was done 6 months
(n = 181, 79.4%) were discharged in ≤7 days irrespective later.
of hematoma size and location, whereas only 31 patients
(13.6%) were discharged after 7 days (χ2 = 139.8, p ≤ Mortality
0.0001). Similarly, majority of the patients in every seg- • Based on Age
ment of motor response had a hospital stay of ≤7 days Out of 16 mortality, maximum was seen in the age
(n = 197, 86.4%) and it was found to be statistically sig- group of 13–18 years (n = 10, 8.3%) and least in the age
nificant (χ2 = 18.484, p ≤ 0.001; Table 5). group of ≤6 years (n = 2, 4.2%; Fig. 3).
• Based on Pupillary Size and Reaction
Complications All patients who presented to us with fixed and dilated
Three patients were reexplored for the reaccumula- pupil had expired (n = 6, 100%), whereas least mortality
tion of hematoma. Two of them with hematoma in tem- was observed in patients who had normal pupillary size
poroparietal region had an arterial rebleed, whereas 1 and reaction (n = 2, 1.0%; Fig. 4).
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CNBT 8
Anisocoria 10 8
NSNR 194 2
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Fig. 4. Figure depicting pupillary abnormality and mortality. CNBT, could not be tested; NSNR, normal size and normal reaction.
2 Inaccurate recording in patients with bilateral ecchy- ies from 0 to 12% in various literatures [9, 19, 20]. Ac-
mosis of the eyelids. cording to our study, M1 and M2 responses had worst
3 Verbal scoring can be significantly affected by facial outcome, and excellent outcome was seen in M5 and M6
injuries. responses. We had an overall mortality of 7.0%, which is
Gale et al. [17] observed that 50% of the patients could lower than Umerani et al. [9] and Molloy et al. [7], but
not be assigned accurate GCS score because of these con- higher than Duthie et al. [12] who reported no death dur-
founding variables. Among 3 components of GCS score, ing their study. We had observed maximum mortality in
motor response (M) is considered as the most reproduc- the age group of 13–18 years (4.3%) and lowest in ≤6 years,
ible and carries the best prognostic information [18]. So, which was lower than Ben Abraham et al. [13] who re-
we have designed our study on the basis of motor com- ported 7.4% death in the age group of 4–10 years and
ponent (M) of GCS score to classify the severity of brain 16.7% in the age group of <4 years. Mortality was high in
injury and for the assessment of outcome. patients who were operated 24 h after the injury and least
Several factors were responsible for the outcome of pe- in patients if operated within 6 h after injury. We found
diatric EDH, including initial motor response at presen- maximum mortality in patients who had posterior fossa
tation, pupillary size and reaction, time between trauma and frontotemporal hematoma along with fixed and di-
to surgery, and location of hematoma. Mortality rate var- lated pupil at presentation. Here, our study is consistent
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Timely surgical intervention in patients with EDH im- The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.
parts excellent outcome with low mortality. Best motor
response at presentation, pupillary abnormalities, time
between injury to surgery, and location of hematoma Funding Sources
have been identified as the important factors determining
outcome in patients of EDH. Funding source is nil.
Author Contributions
Acknowledgments
Dr. Manish Jaiswal (corresponding author) conceived and de-
This work was supported by the Department of Neurosurgery, signed the research. Dr. Mohd Faheem, Prof. Bal Krishna Ojha,
King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, UP, India and De- Prof. Anil Chandra, Prof. Sunil Kumar Singh, and Prof. Chhitij
partment of Neurosurgery, Uttar Pradesh University of Medical Srivastava contributed to the design and implementation of the
Sciences, Etawah, Uttar Pradesh, India. research, analysis of the results, and writing of the manuscript.
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