Skull Roentgenograms; Soft Conclusions
1 Department of Pediatrics, Belvedere at Greenspring, Baltimore, MD 21215
We are sure that the title of the lead article of the February 1982 issue, "Mild Head Trauma in Children: When Is a Roentgenogram Necessary" (Pediatrics 69:139, 1982), caught the attention of many readers as it did ours. This article, according to the authors, examined "the incidence and clinical significance (italics ours) of skull fractures in an unselected population of children... ." According to the abstract, the clinical criteria derived from the study are an attempt to "make efficient use of resources."




