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Brain Injuries

What are the causes?

Head injuries are caused by many things, including falls, road traffic accidents, assaults and occasionally sporting injuries. There are up to 3000 children severely brain injured each year in the UK with 40 per cent of trauma deaths being due to the head injury. Trauma causes a quarter of the deaths in children over five years of age in the UK.

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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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