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Mild Head Injury. A Guide to Management.
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Mild Head Injury. A Guide to Management. By philip wrightsonand dorothy gronwall. (Pp 182). Published By Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1999. ISBN 0-19-262939-5.
Mild head injury presents the neurosurgeon with several dilemmas. Those of us who see head injury cases for the purposes of medicolegal reports have even greater problems with the topic. In particular, any statistics relating to the frequency of the condition or its possible complications are likely to be unreliable as many patients who sustain mild head injuries may never be referred to neurosurgeons or even to hospital. Of those who do get admitted, in many cases the primary injury is to another body system and the coexistence …