@article{ref1,
title="Survivors of severe traumatic brain injury in childhood. I. Incidence, background and hospital course",
journal="Scandinavian journal of rehabilitation medicine supplement",
year="1985",
author="Groswasser, Z. and Costeff, H. and Tamir, A.",
volume="12",
number="",
pages="6-9",
abstract="Survivors of severe craniocerebral injury in childhood require prolonged rehabilitation care. We have surveyed the incidence, social characteristics and early hospital course of such patients in Israel. Yearly incidence was 1:100,000. Thirty-six patients were surveyed. Thirteen of these patients (36%) were described as suffering from cognitive deficits prior to injury and in 11 families (30%), the parent pair showed disturbed function before the injury. Thirty-three of the patients (92%) were victims of road accidents, the child being a pedestrian in 70% of these. Duration of coma was over 1 week in all the children but one, and only a minority of the children underwent neurosurgical interventions. The data on premorbid disturbed function are highly suggestive but not conclusive in the absence of a relevant control group. However, the findings are in accord with findings in adult craniocerebral injured patients in whom recognizable social factors seem clearly associated with craniocerebral injury.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0346-8720",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}