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Brain Injuries

What are the symptoms?

Depending on the severity of the injury, there can be many possible long term problems, such as permanent memory problems, speech problems, weakness of the limbs, fits, educational developmental and emotional problems.

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Medical text written October 2002 by Mr N Buxton. Last updated June 2007 by Mr N Buxton, Consultant Paediatric Neurosurgeon, Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool, UK. Non-traumatic brain injury text written October 2003 by Dr R Appleton, Consultant Paediatric Neurologist, Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool, UK.

 

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