European journal of paediatric neurology : EJPN : official journal of the European Paediatric Neurology Society
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Eur. J. Paediatr. Neurol. · Nov 2011
Morphometry and diffusion MR imaging years after childhood traumatic brain injury.
Our goal was to detect possible unrecognized injury in cerebral white matter (WM) in adult survivors of traumatic brain injury (TBI) during childhood, who showed no detectable axonal injury or chronic contusion on late conventional MRI. ⋯ Our results indicate that persistent focal long-term volume reduction and underlying WM structural changes may occur after TBI during childhood and that their effects extend into adulthood. Normal late conventional MR findings after childhood TBI do not rule out non-apparent axonal injury.
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Eur. J. Paediatr. Neurol. · Nov 2011
The incidence of traumatic brain injury in young people in the catchment area of the University Hospital Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is in the developed countries the most common cause of death and disability in childhood. ⋯ The ratio for mild, moderate and severe traumatic brain injury in children and young people was 33.7-1.8-1.In the mild TBI group almost 17% of the patients reported sequelae. The finding that 42% of them had a normal brain CT scan at admission underwrites the necessity of careful follow up of children and young people with mild TBI.