"Head Injuries, Closed" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Traumatic injuries to the cranium where the integrity of the skull is not compromised and no bone fragments or other objects penetrate the skull and DURA MATER. This frequently results in mechanical injury being transmitted to intracranial structures which may produce TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURIES, hemorrhage, or CRANIAL NERVE INJURIES. (From Rowland, Merritt's Textbook of Neurology, 9th ed, p417)
| Descriptor ID |
D016489
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C10.900.300.350 C26.915.300.450 C26.974.382
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| Concept/Terms |
Head Injuries, Closed- Head Injuries, Closed
- Injuries, Closed Head
- Head Injury, Nonpenetrating
- Head Injuries, Nonpenetrating
- Nonpenetrating Head Injuries
- Nonpenetrating Head Injury
- Head Trauma, Closed
- Closed Head Trauma
- Closed Head Traumas
- Head Traumas, Closed
- Closed Head Injuries
- Closed Head Injury
- Head Injury, Closed
Head Injury, Blunt- Head Injury, Blunt
- Blunt Head Injuries
- Blunt Head Injury
- Head Injuries, Blunt
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| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2018 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2019 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Head Injuries, Closed" by people in Profiles.
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Head home: implementation during COVID-19 pandemic. Emerg Med J. 2021 Sep; 38(9):692-693.
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Mild Closed-Head Injury in Conscious Rats Causes Transient Neurobehavioral and Glial Disturbances: A Novel Experimental Model of Concussion. J Neurotrauma. 2019 07 15; 36(14):2260-2271.
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Sudden death from an epileptic seizure due to capillary telangiectasias in the hippocampus. Forensic Sci Med Pathol. 2019 Jun; 15(2):243-248.
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The author responds: The need for prospective studies of cranial CT for ED head trauma patients. Am J Emerg Med. 2019 03; 37(3):531-532.
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Validation of the Pediatric NEXUS II Head Computed Tomography Decision Instrument for Selective Imaging of Pediatric Patients with Blunt Head Trauma. Acad Emerg Med. 2018 07; 25(7):729-737.
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Secondary Gains: Advances in Neurotrauma Management. Emerg Med Clin North Am. 2018 Feb; 36(1):107-133.
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Bilateral Traumatic Caroticocavernous Fistulas: A Case Report and Review of the Literature. J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 2018 04; 76(4):826-830.
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Validation of the sensitivity of the National Emergency X-Radiography Utilization Study (NEXUS) Head computed tomographic (CT) decision instrument for selective imaging of blunt head injury patients: An observational study. PLoS Med. 2017 Jul; 14(7):e1002313.
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Shaken baby syndrome: a common variant of non-accidental head injury in infants. Dtsch Arztebl Int. 2009 Mar; 106(13):211-7.
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Symptoms of post-concussional syndrome are non-specifically related to mild traumatic brain injury in UK Armed Forces personnel on return from deployment in Iraq: an analysis of self-reported data. Psychol Med. 2009 Aug; 39(8):1379-87.