Early Surgery Does Not Seem to Be a Pivotal Criterion to Improve Prognosis in Patients with Frontal Depressed Skull Fractures

Table 4

(a) Comparison between early surgery group (ESG) and delayed surgery group (DSG) in respect to variables on hospital admission. (b) Comparison of the outcomes between the ESG and DSG.

(a)

	ESG	DSG
Age (mean)	29.9	26.5	0.53
GCS (mean)	8.75	11.7	0.02
Male gender	16 (100%)	23 (95.8%)	1.00
Presence of concomitant focal lesions on head CT	15 (93.7%)	21 (87.5%)	0.89
Hypotension	3 (18.7%)	1 (4.2%)	0.28
Hypoxia	2 (12.5%)	0	0.15

(b)

	ESG	DSG
Death	25%	4.2%	0.13
Unfavourable outcome	38.4%	20%	0.41
LPE	33.3%	21.43%	0.64
STD	50%	50%	1.00