TABLE 3.
Intracranial injury types associated with a c-spine injury.
| Intracranial injury type | Cervical spine injuries (c-spine injuries) |
p | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yes (n = 30) |
No (n = 206) |
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| n | % | n | % | ||
| Skull fracture | |||||
| Yes | 10 | 33.3 | 92 | 44.7 | 0.24 |
| No | 20 | 66.7 | 114 | 55.3 | - |
| Extradural haematoma | |||||
| Yes | 5 | 16.7 | 22 | 10.7 | 0.34 |
| No | 25 | 83.3 | 184 | 89.3 | - |
| Subdural haematoma | |||||
| Yes | 6 | 20.0 | 65 | 31.6 | 0.20 |
| No | 24 | 80.0 | 141 | 68.4 | - |
| Traumatic subarachnoid haematoma | |||||
| Yes | 11 | 36.7 | 70 | 34.0 | 0.84 |
| No | 19 | 63.3 | 136 | 66.0 | - |
| Pneumocephalus | |||||
| Yes | 3 | 10.0 | 29 | 14.1 | 0.78 |
| No | 27 | 90.0 | 177 | 85.9 | - |
| Cerebral contusions (haemorrhagic or non-haemorrhagic) | |||||
| Yes | 12 | 40.0 | 110 | 53.4 | 0.17 |
| No | 18 | 60.0 | 96 | 46.6 | - |
| Diffuse axonal injury | |||||
| Yes | 8 | 26.7 | 26 | 12.6 | 0.04 |
| No | 22 | 73.3 | 180 | 87.4 | - |
| Cerebral oedema | |||||
| Yes | 5 | 16.7 | 43 | 20.9 | 0.59 |
| No | 25 | 83.3 | 163 | 79.1 | - |
| Compression of the cerebrospinal fluid spaces | |||||
| Yes | 9 | 30.0 | 51 | 24.8 | 0.54 |
| No | 21 | 70.0 | 155 | 75.2 | - |
| Acquired intracranial herniation | |||||
| Yes | 5 | 16.7 | 37 | 18.0 | 0.83 |
| No | 25 | 83.3 | 169 | 82.0 | - |