Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the leading cause of death and disability in children. Pediatric
TBI is associated with several distinctive characteristics that differ from adults and are …

Importance In recent years, there has been an exponential increase in the research guiding
pediatric mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) clinical management, in large part because of …

Importance Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), or concussion, in children is a rapidly growing
public health concern because epidemiologic data indicate a marked increase in the …

Background CT imaging of head-injured children has risks of radiation-induced malignancy.
Our aim was to identify children at very low risk of clinically-important traumatic brain injuries …

Sport-related concussion is a “hot topic” in the media and in medicine. It is a common injury
that is likely underreported by pediatric and adolescent athletes. Football has the highest …

Background: A quarter of all patients presenting to emergency departments are children.
Although there are several large, well-conducted studies on adults enabling accurate …

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a common and potentially devastating clinical problem.
Because prompt proper management of TBI sequelae can significantly alter the clinical …

The youngest children, particularly in the first year of life, are the most vulnerable to physical
abuse. Skeletal survey is the universal screening examination in children 24 months of age …

Objective. In children< 2 years old, minor head trauma (HT) is a common injury that can
result in skull fracture and intracranial injury (ICI). These injuries can be difficult to detect in …

STUDY OBJECTIVE: Computed tomography (CT) is frequently used in evaluating children
with blunt head trauma. Routine use of CT, however, has disadvantages. Therefore, we …