[Skull contusion and concussion: problems of reporting (author's transl)].

Trauma to the nervous system and its sequelae in a one-year birth cohort followed up to the age of 14 years.

The one-year birth cohort of 12 058 children, 96% of all children born in the two northernmost provinces of Finland, Oulu and Lapland, in 1966 was studied prospectively up to the age of 14 years. During this period 14 children, 1.2 per thousand, were lost from the follow-up. Data on development, mortality, and morbidity were collected prospectively by means of questionnaires and from various re...

Concussion History, Mental Health, and Attention-Related Errors among Female Amateur MMA Fighters at the 2019 IMMAF European Championship: A Descriptive Study

Background. Increasingly, women are training and competing in mixed martial arts (MMA). Women are, however, hugely underrepresented in the research literature. Objectives. The purpose of this brief report was to assess concussion knowledge, mental health and attention-related errors among female MMA competitors and factors that might affect data quality when doing a study during a competition....

More on myocardial contusion--with additional insight on myocardial concussion.

A patient with a traumatic brain injury due to barrel bomb tertiary blast effect

 Preparing to manage weapons of mass destruction events challenges emergency services systems neighboring Syria every day. Understanding injury from explosives is essential for all providers of emergency care in both civilian and military settings. In this case, the authors present a 22-year-old man who was admitted to the emergency department with displaced skull fracture, epidural hemorrhage ...

Contusion of the Eye and Commotio Retinæ

Contusion of the eye and of its environs, i.e., injury direct or indirect by the transmission of concussion or shock, which does not produce rupture of the capsule of the eyeball causes a Syeat variety of lesions. These lesions are best divided into two groups, those produced in the interior segment, and those produced in the posterior segment of the eyeball. Among the latter a condition known ...