Neuropathology of inflicted head injury in children
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Neuropathology of inflicted head injury in children. II. Microscopic brain injury in infants.
There are very few reports in the literature dealing with the neuropathology of infant head injury, and the question of whether diffuse traumatic brain damage [diffuse axonal injury (DAI)] occurs in such children has not yet been reliably established by detailed neuropathological studies. We report the findings in the brains of a series of 37 infants aged 9 months or less, all of whom died from...
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Fifty-three cases of non-accidental head injury in children were subjected to detailed neuropathological study, which included immunocytochemistry for microscopic damage. Clinical details were available for all the cases. There were 37 infants, age at head injury ranging from 20 days to 9 months, and 16 children (range 13 months to 8 years). The most common injuries were skull fractures (36% of...
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The purpose of this study was to examine the current patterns of head trauma associated with child abuse. We reviewed the records of all patients admitted to our medical center between 1995 and 1997 with a primary diagnosis of head trauma, and analyzed the clinical presentation, mechanism of injury, socioeconomic status and outcome for these patients. Head trauma was deliberately inflicted in 3...
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There is scant neuropathological information in the child abuse literature; even the best reviews include assumptions based on the findings of a few inadequate early studies. Our recent series of 53 fatal cases (Brain 124 (2001) 1290, 1299 [1,2]) demonstrated age-related patterns of brain injury and showed the substrate of severe encephalopathy in the infants to be hypoxic brain damage, not dif...
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Acute head injury Epidemiology In the United Kingdom more than 150,000 patients are admitted to hospital each year with an acute head injury. Of this group more than 80% are classified as having a mild head injury, as defined by the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS). Approximately 1-2% of patients admitted to hospital after traumatic brain injury die as a consequence of their injuries with the majority ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Brain
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0006-8950,1460-2156
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awf076