The frequency, distribution, and appearance of corpus callosum injuries were evaluated with MR and CT in a prospective study of 78 patients with acute (n = 63) and chronic (n = 15) head injuries. Traumatic lesions of the corpus callosum were detected in 47% of patients. MR was significantly (p less than .001) more sensitive than CT in the detection of callosal injuries. MR and CT visualized 100...

BACKGROUND Trauma remains one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Generally, the incidence of traumatic injuries is disproportionately high in males. However, trauma in females is underreported. AIM To study the epidemiology and outcome of different mechanisms and types of traumatic injuries in women. METHODS We conducted a traditional narrative review using PubMed, ...

Acute vascular emergencies can arise from direct traumatic injury to the vessel or be spontaneous (non-traumatic).The vascular injuries can also be divided into two categories: arteial injury and venous injury.Most of them are life-treatening emergencies, sice they may cause an important ipovolemic shock or severe ischemia in their end organ and require prompt diagnosis and treatment.In the dif...

Interest in how victims of traumatic injuries recover is increasing and a number of observational studies have now been done. There are very few intervention studies aimed at enhancing recovery, but there will be more as our knowledge base grows. Older recipients of traumatic injuries differ from the young in the types of injuries they sustain, in the way they respond to their injuries and in t...

BACKGROUND An important medical concern of the Iraq war is the potential long-term effect of mild traumatic brain injury, or concussion, particularly from blast explosions. However, the epidemiology of combat-related mild traumatic brain injury is poorly understood. METHODS We surveyed 2525 U.S. Army infantry soldiers 3 to 4 months after their return from a year-long deployment to Iraq. Valid...

The National Coalition for Agricultural Safety and Health (NCASH) in 1988 addressed issues in agriculture and noted "a sense of urgency... arose from the recognition of the unabating epidemic of traumatic death and injury in American farming . . ." This article provides an update to the NCASH conference on traumatic injuries in agriculture, a history on how the facts and figures were arrived at...

trauma is the leading cause of death in united states in the younger population. cardiac trauma is common following blunt chest injuries and is associated with high morbidity and mortality. this study discusses various multidetector computed tomography (mdct) findings of cardiac trauma. cardiac injuries are broadly categorized into the most commonly occurring blunt cardiac injury and the less c...