Skull x-ray examinations after head trauma. Recommendations by a multidisciplinary panel and validation study.

The value of skull radiography in identifying intracranial injury has not yet been satisfactorily defined. A multidisciplinary panel of medical experts was assembled to review the issue of skull radiography for head trauma. The panel identified two main groups of patients--those at high risk of intracranial injury and those at low risk of such injury--and developed a management strategy for imaging in the two groups.

The utilization and efficacy of pelvimetry.

Data from non random groups of deliveries with some identical clinical factors were compared and certain conclusions are suggested. Most x-ray examinations which cause significant fetal exposure are pelvimetries. There appears to be no uniform set of indications for performing pelvimetry.