Brain injury : [BI]
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Brain injury : [BI] · Feb 2009
Neuropsychological functioning following complicated vs. uncomplicated mild traumatic brain injury.
It would be logical to assume that patients with intracranial abnormalities (i.e. complicated MTBIs) would have worse outcome than patients without these abnormalities (i.e. uncomplicated MTBIs). However, the literature is limited and somewhat mixed regarding outcome in patients with complicated mild TBIs. The purpose of this study is to employ a carefully controlled research design to compare the acute neuropsychological functioning of patients following complicated and uncomplicated MTBI. ⋯ Patients with complicated MTBIs performed more poorly only on a small number of tests during the acute recovery period.