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Head Injury in Buenos Aires City: Main Features

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Head injury (HI) the so called “silent epidemic“ is the leading cause of death and dissability in people above 40 years old. It importance regarding soncieconomic and public health issues has been objet of analysis and lead to a great number of epidemiological publications [1,2,3,4] mainly in the seventies and eighties.

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  1. Emergency Room and Intensive Care Unit, Argentina

    Patricia S. Marchio

  2. Intensive Care Unit, Argentina

    Ignacio J. Previgliano

  3. Hospital General de Agudos J.A. Fernandez, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Claudio E. Goldini (Coordinator Emergency Areas)

  4. Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío, Sevilla, España

    Francisco Murillo-Cabezas (Emergency Room and Intesive Care Unit Head)

  5. Buenos Aires University, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Armando Basso (Emerit Proffessor of Neurosurgery)

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  1. Department of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine, Fujita Health University, 1-98 Dengakugakubo, Kutsukake-cho, Toyoake, Aichi, 470-1192, Japan

    Tetsuo Kanno M.D., Ph.D. (Professor) & Yoko Kato M.D., Ph.D. (Associate Professor) (Professor) &  (Associate Professor)

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Marchio, P.S., Previgliano, I.J., Goldini, C.E., Murillo-Cabezas, F., Basso, A. (2006). Head Injury in Buenos Aires City: Main Features. In: Kanno, T., Kato, Y. (eds) Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery and Multidisciplinary Neurotraumatology. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/4-431-28576-8_43

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