The importance of skull impact site for minor mechanism head injury requiring neurosurgical intervention

Oren Tavor1, Sirisha Kusuma Boddu2, Miguel Glatstein3, María Julia Lamberti4, Abhaya V. Kulkarni5, Dennis Scolnik6
1Pediatric Emergency Department, Tel Aviv Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
2Rainbow Children’s Hospital, Madhapur, Hyderabad, India
3Pediatric Emergency Department, Dana Children’s Hospital, Tel Aviv Medical Center, University of Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
4Department of Neurosurgery, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
5Division of Neurosurgery, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
6Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

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