Cerebral Venous Air Embolism due to a Hidden Skull Fracture Secondary to Head Trauma
Case Reports in Neurological Medicine, 2015 Cerebral venous air embolism is sometimes caused by head trauma. One of the paths of air entry is considered a skull fracture. We report a case of cerebral venous air embolism following head trauma.
Ai Hosaka +3 more
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Skull-base fractures: Pearls of etiopathology, approaches, management, and outcome
Apollo Medicine, 2019 Fractures involving skull bases usually results from high-velocity impacts, i.e., motor vehicular accidents. The estimated incidence of skull-base fracture varies from 4% of all head injuries to 7%–16% of closed head injuries.
K V. L Narasinga Rao +6 more
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Endoscopic Endonasal Repair and Reconstruction of Traumatic Anterior Skull Base Defects
Case Reports in Otolaryngology, 2023 Eighty percent of cerebrospinal fluid leaks (CSF) occur following trauma and complicate 12 to 13% percent of all basilar skull fractures (Prosser, Vender, and Solares, 2011).
Isabelle J. M. Williams +3 more
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Potential benefit of a screening tool in selecting head-injured children aged 36 months or younger who can cooperate in computed tomography [PDF]
Pediatric Emergency Medicine Journal, 2021 Purpose We aimed to investigate the benefit of a screening tool in selecting head-injured children who can potentially cooperate with computed tomography (CT).
Jin Sung Kim +3 more
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Pneumoventricle of Unknown Origin. A Personal Experience and Literature Review of a Clinical Enigma [PDF]
, 2019 Pneumocephalus (PC) is an uncommon and life-threatening neurological condition. Air within the ventricular system of the brain is also known as Pneumoventricle (PV). It requires emergency treatments to prevent catastrophic neurological outcomes.
Armocida, Daniele +5 more
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Difficult birth is the main contributor to birth‐related fracture and accidents to other neonatal fractures [PDF]
, 2020 Aim Specific birth-related fractures have been studied; underestimates might be a problem. We aimed to assess all fractures diagnosed as birth-related as well as other neonatal fractures.
Centre of Epidemiology SNBoHaW +5 more
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Post-Traumatic Tension Pneumocephalus in a Nigerian Male: A Case Report [PDF]
International Journal of Anatomy Radiology and Surgery, 2021 Pneumocephalus is a rare condition that usually arises from severe head and facial trauma, tumours of the skull base and surgical procedures involving the base of the skull.
muhammad baba sule +3 more
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Neurosurgical Focus, 2019 OBJECTIVE Skull fractures are common after blunt pediatric head trauma. CSF leaks are a rare but serious complication of skull fractures; however, little evidence exists on the risk of developing a CSF leak following skull fracture in the pediatric ...
Kunal Varshneya +6 more
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Erciyes Medical Journal, 2020 Objective: To investigate whether three-dimensional (3-D) reformatted cranial computed tomography (CT) scans may contribute to the avoidance of misdiagnosis of skull fractures in pediatric emergency cases.
Yasin Ertuğ Çekdemir
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Diagnostic Utility of Conventional Radiography in Head Injury [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2015 Background: Head injury is the frequent cause of morbidity and mortality and frequently encountered in emergency department. Radiological examination of the skull is an indispensable part in the management of patients suffering from head trauma. Aim:
Hitesh Chawla +5 more
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