[Computerized tomography findings and clinical analysis of psychiatric disorder of praecox from head injury. Report of 52 cases].

Abstract

This article reports and analyses 52 cases of psychiatric disorders of praecox from head injury. These patients included 39 males and 13 females. They were 13-80 years old. All of them examples by CT scan and found intracerebral hematomas or cerebral contusion. The shortest course of disease was 3 day, and the longest course was 53 day. 44 cases (84.7%) appear psychiatric disorders in first week. The most frequent psychiatric symptoms was disturbances of consciousness and dysmnesia. Disturbance of emotion, change of personality were also observed. Frequency of psychiatric disorders was same in brain traumatic of left or right lateralis. Course of disease and degree of psychiatric symptoms had nothing to do with size of hematoma and cerebral contusion, and relate to compression of ventricles of the brain. Encephalo-edema around the focus leading to regional compression of the brain was important factors for the disorder. The appearance of this disorder was early, course of disease was short, and prognosis was good.