• Soner Yaşar, Alparslan Kırık, and Mehmet Ozan Durmaz.
• Department of Neurosurgery, University of Health Sciences, Gülhane Faculty of Medicine, Ankara-Turkey.
• Ulus Travma Acil Cer. 2020 Sep 1; 26 (5): 765-768.

BackgroundWe aim to present our series on pediatric head traumas and discuss our results with the current literature.MethodsThe data of children who underwent treatment for head trauma in our department between 2010 and 2019 were retrospectively reviewed. Their clinical condition at admission, radiological findings, treatment methods and outcomes were analyzed.ResultsNinety children underwent treatment for head trauma, 60 of them were male and 30 were female. The mean age was 6.6 years. Linear skull fracture was seen 55 patients, while epidural hematoma in 15 patients. Twenty patients underwent surgical treatment, while 70 patients underwent conservative treatment. No patient died in our series, three patients underwent rehabilitation due to neurological deficits after discharge.ConclusionChildren were more prone to head trauma, but their mortality was less than the adults. Conservative treatment should be the first goal, but surgical management should be reserved for children with significant hematoma and declining neurological conditions.

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