OBJECTIVES To report the prevalence and characteristics of headaches in veterans with mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) and to describe most common treatment strategies after neurological evaluation. METHODS We conducted a retrospective cohort study. The setting was a United States Veterans Healthcare Administration Polytrauma Network Site. The study participants consisted of 246 veterans wit...

Çocuklarda inme beyin tümörleri kadar sıktır ve çocukluk çağında ilk on ölüm nedeni arasındadır. Kafa travması geçiren çocuklarda, hemorojik inme, iskemik inmeye göre daha sık görülmektedir. Hafif kafa sonrası 2 yaş altı çocuklarda beynin anatomik özellikleri mekanik vazospazm gibi mekanizmalarla açıklanmaya çalışılan lentikülostriat bildirilmektedir. Aileler hekimler tarafından çoğunlukla önem...

Posttraumatic cerebral infarction is a rare complication and is an indicator of poor clinical outcome of head-trauma in spite of appropriate medical and surgical interventions. Cerebellar infarction following head trauma is also very rare and only a few reported cases are available in literatures. A 2-year-old child sustained head injury in a car accident and underwent surgery because of cerebr...

background outcome determination of head trauma is important for medical decision-making. to determine the consequences by using ct findings, the marshall and rotterdam criteria were introduced. few studies have been conducted to determine the diagnostic value of the rotterdam criteria. objective this study assesses the diagnostic value of the rotterdam criteria score with early outcome for tra...

An affective, somatic, and memory checklist of symptoms was administered to subjects who had no personal experience or knowledge of head injury. Subjects indicated their current experiences of symptoms, then imagined having sustained a mild head injury in a motor vehicle accident, and endorsed symptoms they expected to experience six months after the injury. The checklist of symptoms was also a...