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Case 55 - 18-year-old male involved in head-on motor vehicle collision with closed head injury and admitting Glasgow coma scale score of 3

from Section 6 - Neurology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2016

Edited by
Bharti Khurana ,
Jacob Mandell ,
Asha Sarma  and
Stephen Ledbetter
Bharti Khurana
Affiliation:
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Jacob Mandell
Affiliation:
Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts
Stephen Ledbetter
Affiliation:
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
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Emergency Radiology COFFEE Case Book
Case-Oriented Fast Focused Effective Education
 , pp. 418 - 425
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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Hardman, JM, Manoukian, A. Pathology of head trauma. Neuroimaging Clinics of North America 2002; 12(2):175-187CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Iwata, A et al. Traumatic axonal injury induces proteolytic cleavage of the voltage-gated sodium channels modulated by tetrodotoxin and protease inhibitors. J of Neuroscience 2004; 24(19):4605-4613CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Kinoshita, T et al. Conspicuity of diffuse axonal injury lesions on diffusion-weighted MR imaging. Eur J Radiology Oct. 2005; 56(1):5-11CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Maas, AI et al. Moderate and severe traumatic brain injury in adults. Lancet Neurology 2008; 7(8):728-741CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Skandsen, T et al. Prevalence and impact of diffuse axonal injury in patients with moderate and severe head injury: a cohort study of early MRI findings and 1-year outcome. J Neurosurg Oct. 23, 2009CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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