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Nervous System Diseases > Central Nervous System Diseases > Brain Diseases > Brain Injuries
Wounds and Injuries > Trauma, Nervous System > Craniocerebral Trauma > Brain Injuries
Nervous System Diseases > Trauma, Nervous System > Craniocerebral Trauma > Brain Injuries

Preferred term

Brain Injuries  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Narrower concepts

Entry terms

  • Brain Injury
  • Injuries, Brain
  • Injury, Brain

Note

  • general or unspecified; consider also /inj with specific parts of the brain; do not confuse with CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA

Scope note

  • Acute and chronic (see also BRAIN INJURIES, CHRONIC) injuries to the brain, including the cerebral hemispheres, CEREBELLUM, and BRAIN STEM. Clinical manifestations depend on the nature of injury. Diffuse trauma to the brain is frequently associated with DIFFUSE AXONAL INJURY or COMA, POST-TRAUMATIC. Localized injuries may be associated with NEUROBEHAVIORAL MANIFESTATIONS; HEMIPARESIS, or other focal neurologic deficits.

History note

  • 1981(1963); for BRAIN CONTUSION use BRAIN CONCUSSION 1998-1999

In other languages

  • aivovammat

    Finnish

  • aivottrauma
  • aivottraumat
  • aivovamma
  • aivovaurio
  • aivovauriot
  • laesio cerebri
  • Hjärnskador

    Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D001930

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