[PDF] Top 20 Mild Head Trauma in Children: When Is a Roentgenogram Necessary

... The selection criteria developed for adults by Bell and Loop’ and Phillips5 would have identified only nine of the 15 fractures in our series (sensitivity 60%); 61 patients without a fra[r] ... See full document

... Head trauma is a common reason for an emergency de- partment (ED) visit, especially among adolescents and adults ...of head trauma in the paediatric population is estimated to 180 - 300 per ... See full document

... these children, 20% to 70% undergo computed tomography (CT), exposing them to ionizing radiation and increased risk of ...some children in whom CT can be avoided, with 1 well-validated decision rule having ... See full document

... Abusive head trauma (AHT) remains a signi fi cant cause of morbidity and mortality in the pediatric population, especially in young ...place children at ...subspecialists when necessary, ... See full document

... Objective. Children with a question of occult head injury are routinely hospitalized despite hav- ing both normal central nervous system (CNS) and com- puted tomographic (CT) scan ...occult head ... See full document

... Although a correlation between MTR values and results of neuropsychological analysis was found for only two individual tests, it is possible that po- tential correlations were masked by partial volume effects of the ROI ... See full document

... message Trauma is the main cause of death in children older than 1 year of age, and within this group head trauma is the leading cause of disability and ...their children, decide ... See full document

... abusive head trauma inflicted on infants and young ...abusive head trauma compel us to modify our terminology to keep pace with our understanding of pathologic ...abusive head injury, ... See full document

... in children with moderate and severe head trauma in the year 2000 reported that 47 (27%) cases of the second CT scans showed significant new lesions including six intracranial hemorrhages (ICH), 17 ... See full document

... as mild if 1 to 50 intraretinal hemor- rhages were present, moderate if ⬎ 50 intraretinal hemorrhages were pres- ent, and severe if in addition to in- traretinal hemorrhages, there were preretinal hemorrhages, ... See full document

... The physical health indices reported by parents of the head trauma patients were identical with those reported by parents of healthy children in the Rand Health Insurance Study. If the h[r] ... See full document

... some children who were lost to follow-up had traumatic fi ndings managed at a hospital that was not involved in the ...primary trauma centers of the region, however, this is ...normal head CT or MRI ... See full document

... Beside the five infants listed previously as early fatalities, and the one who survived with treatment of an acute subdural hema- toma and depressed fracture, such hemato- mata were diag[r] ... See full document

... hemorrhage rarely results in visual compromise, there may be no external indicators of eye injury unless the vi- sion is significantly impaired by dam- age to the optic nerve or occipital cor- tex or there is retinal ... See full document

... examined children and youth with TBI. One article examined both head injury and TBI and provided separate case definitions for these ...of head injury were higher than the rate of brain injury in ... See full document

... enrolled children ⬍ 18 years old presenting to the pediatric ED after a history of blunt head trauma with historical or physical examination findings con- sistent with head ...scalp ... See full document

... the knowledge of a fracture leads to an alteration in medical management, documentation is impor- tant. For example, a depressed fracture greater than a few millimeters requires surgical[r] ... See full document

... protecting study with the understanding that diet and nutri- tion could play a signifi cant role in disease proliferation or control. With the exception of the Gleason Score (excluding men with a primary Gleason Score of ... See full document

... Roentgenogram of the chest 3 weeks later when blebs were seen in the lower half of the right lung field (Table I, LT)... Roentgenogram of the chest of an infant[r] ... See full document

... Fiber tracking software allowed for reconstruction of merely the fibers that passed through a given ROI. The number and length of individual through-passing fibers were calculated for each ROI, and we determined the ... See full document