Citation

Roldan-Valadez E, Facha MT, Martinez-Lopez M, Herrera-Mora P. Eur. J. Paediatr. Neurol. 2006; 10(4): 194-196.

Affiliation

Department of Radiology. Medica Sur Hospital and Clinical Foundation, Puente de Piedra #150. Col. Toriello Guerra, Deleg, Tlalpan, CP 14050, Mexico City, Mexico. ernest.roldan@usa.net

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.ejpn.2006.07.001

PMID

16949843

Abstract

Reports about neurological injury related to roller-coaster rides mostly involve adults; we present a case of subdural hematoma in a pediatric patient presented 14 days after a roller-coaster ride. These rides show extreme up-and-down, to-and-fro, and rotatory acceleration/deceleration forces that could produce tensile and shearing stresses with tearing of bridging cerebral veins resulting in subdural hemorrhage. Pediatricians should consider roller-coaster riding a modern cause of subdural hematoma, as well as a possible cause of unexplained neurologic events in otherwise healthy adolescents.

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