... or services advertised or of their effectiveness, quality or safety. The publisher and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Head injury Gigantic foreign body...

...), an accumulation of blood between the inner table of skull and periosteal dura, is one of the most rewarding surgery if performed timely and meticulously. In India, 40% of over 1,250 million people belong to pediatric age group and around 25–27% of all head injury victims are children [ 1, 2 ]. The incidence...

... injuries resulting from TV trolley tip-over. Method: We conducted a medical chart review of children with TV trolley tip-over head injuries from January 2009 to April 2016. We collected data on demographics, the mechanism of injury, clinical and radiological features of the injury, and outcomes. Outcomes...

... to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Equestrian-related injuries Horse Head injury Traumatic brain injury A 9-year-old female presented after a horse had kicked her in the head. She was reportedly...

... the most common mechanism of injury and were more common in the observed group (66 vs. 33%, p = 0.04; table 1 ). Computed tomography Cranial therapy Craniotomy Epidural hematoma Head injury Pediatric trauma Radiography Repeat imaging X-ray Epidural hematoma (EDH) is a known...

.... The patient recovered fully and was normal at discharge and the 6-month follow-up. Barbiturate coma Craniectomy Glasgow Coma Scale Head injury Traumatic brain injury Intracranial hypertension Aggressive management of children with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) presenting with poor...

... percent of the patients had severe head injury. The mean GCS score on admission was 6.0 ± 2.5 (range 3–12), while the mean GCS score of the group with severe head injury was 4.81 ± 1.7 (range 3–7). Eleven (52.4%) patients had isolated basal ganglia hematoma while 10 (47.6%) had other associated...

... pontis. We describe a head injury patient who suffered this clinical entity as a consequence of rapidly corrected hyponatremia. Clinical manifestation and radiological findings are described along with a review of the pertinent literature. Because the underlying process of CPM is the osmotic...

...A. Wani Abrar; Javeed Zargar; Altaf U. Ramzan; Nayil K. Malik; A. Qayoom; A.R. Kirmani; Furqan A. Nizami; M.A. Wani Objectives: The aim of this study was to assess the head injury in children caused by an unusual projectile, a tear gas cartridge. The study is the only one on this subject which has...

...Ahmet Güzel; Tufan Hiçdönmez; Osman Temizöz; Burhan Aksu; Hakan Aylanç; Serap Karasalihoglu Objectives: The aim of this study was to describe the characteristics of patients with a minor head injury (MHI) who were admitted to a pediatric emergency unit and to identify the clinical signs...

... with mild head injury. Methods: The authors retrospectively reviewed charts of patients with conservatively treated EDH at the Department of Neurosurgery, King Abdulla University Hospital, Irbid, Jordan, between August 2003 and October 2007. All patients had a Glasgow Coma Scale score of 14 or 15...

... groups. Head injury Facial trauma Orbital fracture Infants Children NPeeudrioastruircgery David J. Donahue Karen Smith Eric Church William M. Chadduck Children's National Medical Center. Washington. D .C ., U SA Original Paper Pcdiatr Neurosurg 1997;26:261-268 Received: May 2.1997 Accepted after...

...Ann-Christine Duhaime; Cindy Christian; Edward Moss; Toni Seidl Nonaccidental injury accounts for nearly one quarter of all hospital admissions for head injury in infancy, and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Long-term outcome in survivors, however, has been incompletely...

...Lai-choo Ong; Benedict M. Selladurai; Malkeet K. Dhillon; Maimunah Atan; Mun-Sann Lye The outcome of 151 children less than 15 years of age and admitted within 24 h of head injury was studied in relation to clinical and computed tomography (CT) scan features. Thirty one (20.5%) had a poor outcome...

... from the scene of an accident were considered direct transports, whereas those taken to another hospital prior to transfer to CHOW were indirect. Of the children that suffered severe head injuries, 56 were admitted directly to the hospital and 42 indirectly. The indirect group had a higher percentage...

...Ghassan K. Bejjani; David J. Donahue; Jerome Rusin; Lyle D. Broemeling Objective: Modern neuroimaging and intensive care permit precise delineation and specific treatment of head injury. Children sustaining cranial trauma associated with epidural hematoma (EDH) represent a heterogeneous group...

... to be addressed in our future therapeutic protocols. 14 02 1997 11 08 1997 7 3 2008 Head injury Cerebral blood flow Xenon computed tomography Pediatric Neurosurgery Original Paper Pediatr Neurosurg 1997;26:200-207 Received: February 14.1997 Accepted after revision: August 11, 1997 P...

.... Clinical and radiographic features distinguishing these ‘disappearing subdurals’ from more typical subdural hematomas are discussed. Subdural hematoma Head injury Infant Child Retinal hemorrhage Child abuse Mechanism 8 09 1995 21 10 1996 7 3 2008 © 1996 S. Karger AG, Basel...

...L.N. Sutton; Z. Wang; A.C. Duhaime; D. Costarino; R. Sauter; R. Zimmerman In order to define the metabolic abnormalities associated with different types of pediatric head injury, proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy was performed on 21 cerebral regions obtained from 17 patients. On the basis...

... or of their effectiveness, quality or safety. The publisher and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Head injury Internal carotid artery occlusion Magnetic resonance...