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Abstract
As 64 per cent of motor vehicle accidents occur in the rural districts and 60 per
cent of skull fractures are due to these accidents, the treatment of a large number
of skull fractures becomes the problem of the suburban hospital and the general surgeon.
The present mortality of approximately 25 per cent should be reduced by the conservative
management of these cases.
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☆Read before the Surgical Section of the New York Academy of Medicine, October 17, 1935.
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© 1936 Published by Elsevier Inc.
