Giant post-traumatic cyst after closed degloving injury

Giant post-traumatic cyst after motorcycle injury: a case report with review of the pathogenesis.

Post-traumatic cysts of soft tissue usually occur at the junction of the subcutaneous fat and deep fascia, most often filled with serosanguinous fluid and lined with fibrous tissue. It appears as complication after severe injuries when crushing and shearing forces cause separation of the skin and subcutaneous fat from the deep fascia and muscle, creating a cavity filled with hematoma and liquef...

Complex Traumatic Facial Degloving Injury.

By definition, degloving is detachment of skin and subcutaneous tissue, most often affecting the limbs and extremities and occasionally the scalp. Degloving generally occurs from high-energy trauma. This paper describes a patient of traumatic facial degloving injury. This is an extremely rare condition, as the patient survived despite the risk of imminent death. This patient report addresses th...

Closed degloving injury of the thigh.

Traumatic epilepsy after closed head injury.

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Assessment of post-traumatic amnesia after severe closed head injury: retrospective or prospective?

BACKGROUND Post-traumatic amnesia is considered to be the best single indicator of the severity of closed head injury. Usually, it has been estimated retrospectively. For practical reasons this also tends to be the most common clinical method. It has been argued that prospective assessment is more accurate and reliable, but this has never been evaluated empirically in severe head injury. METH...