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Art Imaging ofClosed of neuro- Head are responsible of these deaths Injuryâ for the vast majority and disabilities (1). most lems costs LINICAL management quent to initial trauma (secondary trauma formidable encountered represents one of the probday of and prevalent in the modern emergency of caring room for (1). The the large financial number Recent studies have the annual incidence the U.S. population estimated that of head injury in ranges from 0.2% patients injured each year gering. Severe head injury istically transforms young, individuals into dependent often require decades are stagcharacterproductive ones that institu- of costly tionalized care. of the diagnostic traumatology The primary radiologist is to provide objective in neurodiagnostic to 0.3% (1). The incidence of head injury peaks at 550 per 100,000 people aged 15-24 years (1). The incidence subsequently declines with age until the age of 50 years, when it again begins to rise steadily (1). A minimum of 500,000 new cases of head injury can be expected to occur in the United States each year (1). Of the new cases, injury). Secondary damage can occur in the form of additional mechanical injury to the brain or from derangements of metabolic processes. The mechanisms responsible
Radiology – Radiological Society of North America, Inc.
Published: Apr 1, 1994
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