 Head Injuries, Closed
"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 injury. (From Rowland, Merritt's Textbook of Neurology, 9th ed, p417)
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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 Trauma, Closed
- Closed Head Trauma
- Closed Head Traumas
- Head Traumas, Closed
- Trauma, Closed Head
- Traumas, Closed Head
- Closed Head Injuries
- Closed Head Injury
- Head Injury, Closed
- Head Injuries, Nonpenetrating
- Nonpenetrating Head Injuries
- Nonpenetrating Head Injury
Head Injury, Blunt- Head Injury, Blunt
- Blunt Head Injuries
- Blunt Head Injury
- Head Injuries, Blunt
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| 1991 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1992 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1993 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1994 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 1996 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 1997 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 1999 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2000 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 2001 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Head Injuries, Closed" by people in Profiles.
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O'Dell KM, Hannay HJ, Biney FO, Robertson CS, Tian TS. The effect of blood alcohol level and preinjury chronic alcohol use on outcome from severe traumatic brain injury in Hispanics, anglo-Caucasians, and African-americans. J Head Trauma Rehabil. 2012 Sep-Oct; 27(5):361-9.
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Wong GK, Leung BY, So SS, Lam SW, Poon WS. Long-term quality of life outcome (SF-36) in traumatic acute subdural hematoma patients. Acta Neurochir (Wien). 2011 Jan; 153(1):107-8.
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Pastorek NJ, Hannay HJ, Contant CS. Prediction of global outcome with acute neuropsychological testing following closed-head injury. J Int Neuropsychol Soc. 2004 Oct; 10(6):807-17.
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McCauley SR, Hannay HJ, Swank PR. Use of the Disability Rating Scale Recovery curve as a predictor of psychosocial outcome following closed-head injury. J Int Neuropsychol Soc. 2001 May; 7(4):457-67.
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Di Stefano G, Bachevalier J, Levin HS, Song JX, Scheibel RS, Fletcher JM. Volume of focal brain lesions and hippocampal formation in relation to memory function after closed head injury in children. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2000 Aug; 69(2):210-6.
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Sherer M, Madison CF, Hannay HJ. A review of outcome after moderate and severe closed head injury with an introduction to life care planning. J Head Trauma Rehabil. 2000 Apr; 15(2):767-82.
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Levin HS, Song J, Scheibel RS, Fletcher JM, Harward HN, Chapman SB. Dissociation of frequency and recency processing from list recall after severe closed head injury in children and adolescents. J Clin Exp Neuropsychol. 2000 Feb; 22(1):1-15.
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Benavidez DA, Fletcher JM, Hannay HJ, Bland ST, Caudle SE, Mendelsohn DB, Yeakley J, Brunder DG, Harward H, Song J, Perachio NA, Bruce D, Scheibel RS, Lilly MA, Verger-Maestre K, Levin HS. Corpus callosum damage and interhemispheric transfer of information following closed head injury in children. Cortex. 1999 Jun; 35(3):315-36.
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Levin HS, Song J, Scheibel RS, Fletcher JM, Harward H, Lilly M, Goldstein F. Concept formation and problem-solving following closed head injury in children. J Int Neuropsychol Soc. 1997 Nov; 3(6):598-607.
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Sander AM, High WM, Hannay HJ, Sherer M. Predictors of psychological health in caregivers of patients with closed head injury. Brain Inj. 1997 Apr; 11(4):235-49.
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