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Disaster Med Public Health Prep
June 2022
Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan.
Objective: We conducted a systematic review to determine the prevalence and characteristics of earthquake-associated head injuries for better disaster preparedness and management.
Methods: We searched for all publications related to head injuries and earthquakes from 1985 to 2018 in MEDLINE and other major databases. A search was conducted using "earthquakes," "wounds and injuries," and "cranio-cerebral trauma" as a medical subject headings.
Neuroimage
April 2021
Univ. Lille, UMR 9193 - SCALab - Sciences Cognitives et Sciences Affectives, F-59000 Lille, France. Electronic address:
People are able to modify the spontaneous pace of their actions to interact with their environment and others. This ability is underpinned by high-level cognitive functions but little is known in regard to the brain areas that underlie such temporal control. A salient practical issue is that current neuroimaging techniques (e.
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October 2020
Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medgin Prenatal Diagnostic Unit, Craiova, Dolj, Romania.
Our communication presents a prenatally detected case with severe spinal defect detected in the first trimester of pregnancy, accompanied by a large skin-covered myelomeningocele but normal cranio-cerebral structural appearance.These findings suggest that in the first trimester, the extent of the spinal defect, the cerebrospinal fluid leakage to a large, but skin-covered, meningocele and fixation of the spinal cord at the lesion are not sufficient to determine downward hindbrain displacement and the development of secondary signs for open spina bifida.Therefore, we suggest a careful evaluation of the fetal cerebral features if a meningocele is detected.
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January 2020
Division of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, University Hospitals of Geneva, 4 Rue Gabrielle-Perret-Gentil, CH-1211, Geneva, Switzerland.
Background: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the association between epidemiological, clinical and radiographic factors of patients with tibial shaft fractures and the occurrence of acute compartment syndrome.
Methods: 270 consecutive adult patients sustaining 273 tibial shaft fractures between January 2005 and December 2009 were included in this retrospective cohort study. The outcome measure was acute compartment syndrome.
In the analysis 41 injured persons were included, ageing (37.3 ± 0.5) yrs old at average with light cranio-cerebral trauma.
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