OBJECTIVE: To determine the number of brain CT scans carried out in patients with mild
head injury (MHI) during 13 months of trauma registry, and to investigate means of reducing …

BACKGROUND: Minor head injury is the most common type of head injury. Despite its high
prevalence and a lot of studies, there is much controversies about the management of these …

Head injury is one of the most prevalent events accounting for about one million of
emergency visits in US and UK annually. It occurs in over the 50% of traumatic patients and …

Objective. 1. To define the incidence of positive CT scans in patients with different grades of
mild head injury (MHI), 2. To identify clinical predictors of positive CT scans, 3. To evaluate …

AIm: In recent decades, considerable progress has been made in diagnosis and
management of cranial trauma patients. Computed Tomography has resulted in a revolution …

BACKGROUND: The purpose of this article was to assess if high-risk, mildly head-injured
patients with normal CT scan present an outcome similar to the group with “low-risk MHI.” …

The present study describes the cranial computed tomography (CT) scan findings of 2,000
cases of mild head trauma (HT) in Curitiba, Southern Brazil. The mean age of the entire …

Background: The value of cranial computerized tomography (CT) scan as a method of
predicting traumatic brain injury (TBI) in patients with minor head trauma (MHT) is …

Materials and methods A retrospective cohort of all adult patients, from April 2000 to March
2001, who sustained a blunt trauma and underwent head CT scan, was reviewed. The …

The objectives of this study were to determine the role of clinical parameters in detecting
intracranial injury and to find out whether cranial computed tomography (CT) is routinely …