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Accidental Head Trauma

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Pediatric Neuroradiology

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The terms “birth trauma” and “perinatal trauma” refer to injuries occurring during labor or delivery [1]. Although these terms are sometimes used broadly, only the adverse effects caused primarily by mechanical factors (Table 19.1) should be considered under these headings. Perinatal mechanical insults may result in hypoxic-ischemic cerebral injury, probably secondary to disturbances of placental or cerebral blood flow [1], thus causing some overlapping between mechanical and hypoxic-ischemic injury. However, only mechanical injury will be discussed in this Chapter, whereas perinatal hypoxic-ischemic injury is discussed in Chapters 5 and 6.

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Tortori-Donati, P., Rossi, A., Biancheri, R. (2005). Accidental Head Trauma. In: Pediatric Neuroradiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-26398-5_19

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