Rehabilitation of head injured children.
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Correspondence to: Dr D M B Hall, Community Health Services, Clare House, St George's Hospital, Blackshaw Road, London SW17 OQT. Epidemiology of head injury in childhood Between the ages of 1 and 14 years accidents constitute the greatest single cause of death and head injuries account for 40% of these, amounting to 403 in the United Kingdom in 1985.1 Only about one quarter of children who received a fatal head injury were travelling in motor vehicles; in most accidents the child was
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Archives of disease in childhood
دوره 65 5 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1990