RADIOLOGICAL CHANGES IN HEAD AND SPINE AFTER FALL FROM A HEIGHT:

Abstract

Advances in anatomical imaging have greatly improved the capacity to detect pathological processes in head and spine following trauma. Fall from height is the second most common cause of traumatic head and spinal injuries. Radiology is essential for the accurate understanding, documentation and depiction of different injuries that occur in different type of head and spinal injuries after fall from height. CT scanning is clearly the procedure of choice in the evaluation of the head-injured patients and probably has significantly improved outcome after head injury.CT is superior than MR in detection of fractures of spines. MR is the imaging modality of choice in assessing soft tissue injuries, spinal cord injuries and inter-vertebral discs and ligaments.