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Penetrating Head Injury

Critical Care Nursing Quarterly, 1994
Penetrating head injuries are a significant public health problem in the United States, with an estimated 33,000 gun-related deaths and many more nonfatal shootings per year. Initial treatment for a penetrating head injury is similar to that of a closed head injury.
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Overview of Head Injuries

Physical Therapy, 1983
Serious injury to the head is a national health problem with enormous emotional, fiscal, and physical consequences. For this special issue of Physical Therapy, serious head injury is defined as trauma to the head with presumed brain involvement. Complete statistical data about head injury in the United States are not available. In the last decade, two
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Head Injuries in Children

Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America, 1991
Even though head injury in children is a major health problem facing our nation today, major advances have occurred in our understanding of the epidemiology, pathophysiology, symptomatology, and outcome of these patients. Basic scientists have also contributed to this body of knowledge by demonstrating some unique characteristics of the immature CNS ...
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Axonal Injury in Head Injury

1983
A histological analysis of 324 unselected fatal head injuries disclosed axonal injury in the form of retraction balls in 100 cases: this was severe in 64 and mild in 36. It is suggested that axonal injury exists as a spectrum without there necessarily being selective involvement of the corpus callosum or the rostral brain stem, and that cases with mild
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Otorrhoea in head injuries

British Journal of Oral Surgery, 1970
Summary The aetiology, applied anatomy, diagnosis and treatment of otorrhoea associated with head injuries are discussed and a case history presented. The difficulties of proving cerebrospinal otorrhoea are stressed.
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Head Injuries

Surgical Clinics of North America, 1982
L H, Pitts, N, Martin
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Head injury therapies

Expert Opinion on Investigational Drugs, 1997
The results of clinical trials in traumatic brain injury have to date been disappointing, despite promising results with animal models. Some of the agents which have been tested in clinical trials and some which are currently under evaluation are reviewed, and possible reasons for the lack of clinical benefit are discussed.
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Neurologists and head injury

Practical Neurology, 2011
Imagine my surprise on reading your recent editor's choice regarding head injury. Perhaps you could have looked a little closer to home before concluding that neurologists in the UK are not involved in the management of patients with head injuries. I am a neurosciences pharmacist working very closely with a consultant neurologist who has recently ...
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Closed Head Injury

Clinics in Sports Medicine, 2013
Closed head injuries vary from the very minor to the catastrophic. It is often difficult to differentiate the severity at initial presentation. Serial assessment is very valuable. Awareness of facial injuries is aided by familiarity with facial bone anatomy and the clinical presentation of orbital, zygomatic, maxillary, and mandibular fracture ...
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HEAD INJURIES IN CHILDHOOD

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery, 1962
SummaryAetiological and structural factors which result in some specific peculiarities as a result of head injuries in children are discussed.The importance of local changes at the point of impact is stressed.Difficulties in diagnosis and management of simple and compound depressed fractures are described.Severe focal brain injury may result in ...
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