...Ryan P. Lee; Nancy Jianing Zhou; Joaquin Hidalgo; W. Lee Titsworth; Rafael Uribe-Cardenas; Rahin Chowdhury; Young Chun; Isam Nasr; F. Dylan Stewart; Paul Sponseller; Mari L. Groves; Eric M. Jackson Objective: Screening for cervical spine injury after blunt trauma is common, but there remains varied...

...Nuri Serdar Baş; Murat Karacan; Ebru Doruk; Feyza Karagoz Guzey Aim and Background: Traumatic epidural hematoma (EDH) is a rare but possibly fatal complication of head trauma in infants. In this study, infants who were younger than 1 year and followed up and treated for TEDH in our clinic were...

... Cervical instability Pediatric spine Trauma The OC junction (OCJ) is a complex organization of bones and ligaments undergoing continuous growth, ossification, and tensile strengthening throughout development. The pediatric patient is uniquely predisposed to OCJ injury secondary...

... by a penetrating and cutting (knife) tool is discussed. Observing air within the spinal canal due to traumatic causes is an important situation rarely seen in the pediatric age group. In general, this situation, which can be seen after multiple trauma, may be encountered following a minor trauma. The correct...

... group. However, laceration (66.6%) and blunt trauma (57.1%) were more frequent in the older children. A tabulation of the mechanisms of injury by age is shown in Table 2 . Table 2 Etiological distribution according to age The sciatic nerve (54.9%) was the most common nerve involved...

... 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. Trauma Hematoma Dura mater Dural layers • Extradural hematoma...

... was 9.3 years (median 9.8; range 0-18), hospital LOS was 22.5 days (median 16; range 1-174) and EVD duration was 7.8 days (median 7; range 1-37). Trauma (43.3%) and neoplasms (32.2%) were the most common indications. Approximately, one quarter of the patients were unable to become EVD independent...

... presented following cranial trauma with diffuse basal subarachnoid hemorrhage and limited additional intracranial pathology. Computed tomography angiography demonstrated a small, 2-mm blister-like aneurysm arising from the dorsal surface of the left supraclinoid ICA at a non-branching site. Despite early...

... to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Skull fracture Trauma Two-hit hypothesis Knudson Here, with tongue-somewhat-in-cheek, we describe another two-hit hypothesis, this one with a direct application...

... tomography (CT) use for patients with MHIs and with a GCS score of 15 for the NOC and of 13–15 after a witnessed LOC, amnesia or confusion for the CCHR [ 6, 13 ]. These rules are not applicable if the patient did not experience a trauma, has a GCS lower than 13 or is younger than 16 years. However, due...

... resulting from a traumatic vertebral artery dissection. Review of the literature on stroke due to a vertebral artery dissection in the pediatric population shows that trauma is a common preceding event. Although the most common site of traumatic vertebral artery dissection is at C1–2 level, our case...

...David J. Donahue; Michael S. Muhlbauer; Robert A. Kaufman; William C. Warner; Robert A. Sanford Traumatic childhood atlantooccipital dislocation (AOD) may be overlooked, especially in patients with concomitant closed head injury and mutiple trauma. We diagnosed and treated 4 children with traumatic...

...: 32-37 (1987) Anterior Spinal Artery Syndrome Report of Seven Cases in Childhood Gosta Blennow, Lena Starck Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital, Lund, Sweden 1987 S. Karger AG. Basel 0255-7975/87/0131-0032 S 2.75/0 Key Words. Anterior spinal artery Trauma Myelopathy Abstract...

... suggest that direct invasion of the CSF by bacteria may cause sepsis and cardiovascular compromise. Further, in adolescents with nonmeningococcal bacterial meningitis, a history of previous head trauma and CSF leakage should be sought and radiographic evaluation for CSF fistula should be considered. 5...

...James T. Goodrich; Ravelo Argamaso; Craig D. Hall We have operated on 20 patients with various forms of complex skull defects due either to trauma, tumor, or craniofacial problems. These cases have required complex reconstruction of defects involving the calvarium and anterior skull base. We review...

... ‘in the setting of external hydrocephalus’) ‘retinal hemorrhage may not be pathognomonic of abusive injury’, ocular findings are often accepted as such ‘other evidence’. This is based on a ‘shearing’ theory with eye and brain findings being independent evidence of trauma with infants only suffering from...

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... of head traumas from falling television sets in children less than the age of 18 were obtained from the US Consumer Product Safety Commission. Statistics for the number of TV sales were obtained from the Consumer Electronic US Sales Report for the same time period. A retrospective chart review overlapping...

... Trauma Melanotic neuroectodermal tumor of infancy (MNTI) generally arises in the maxilla in the first year of life. Involvement of bones of the cranial vault is extremely rare. We report a case of MNTI involving the epidural space and metopic suture associated with a hematoma and history of head...

... from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. 2 5 2001 Frontal abscess Pott’s puffy tumor Sinusitis Trauma Pott’s puffy tumor was first described by Percival Pott [ 1, 2, 3 ]with characteristic findings of massive soft-tissue...