Craniocerebral Trauma

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A matched-cohort study of pediatric head injuries: collecting data to inform an evidence-based triage assessment. 
  • A methodology for assessing blast protection in explosive ordnance disposal bomb suits. 
  • A statewide nurse training program for a hospital based infant abusive head trauma prevention program. 
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria Head Trauma. 
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® Head Trauma: 2021 Update. 
  • Acute loss of fusional convergence following head trauma. 
  • Alzheimer's disease: a study of epidemiological aspects. 
  • An Analysis of Public Interest in Elective Neurosurgical Procedures During the COVID-19 Pandemic Through Online Search Engine Trends. 
  • An analysis of cadaveric calvarial bone: implications of computer imaging in craniofacial reconstruction. 
  • An ecologic study of protective equipment and injury in two contact sports. 
  • Aortic injury resulting from attempted subclavian central venous catheter placement. 
  • Apolipoprotein E modifies the CNS response to injury via a histamine-mediated pathway. 
  • Association of ALS with head injury, cigarette smoking and APOE genotypes. 
  • Association of Epidemiologic Factors and Genetic Variants Influencing Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenocortical Axis Function With Postconcussive Symptoms After Minor Motor Vehicle Collision. 
  • Association of Serious Fall Injuries among United States End Stage Kidney Disease Patients with Access to Kidney Transplantation. 
  • Association of internal carotid artery injury with carotid canal fractures in patients with head trauma. 
  • Barbiturate-induced coma to protect against cerebral ischemia and increased intracranial pressure. 
  • Blunt vascular injuries of the head and neck: is heparinization necessary? 
  • CT and MR imaging of acute cranial trauma. 
  • Catastrophic High School and Collegiate Cheerleading Injuries in the United States: An Examination of the 2006-2007 Basket Toss Rule Change. 
  • Causes, prevention, and treatment of post-traumatic epilepsy. 
  • Classification of civilian craniocerebral gunshot wounds: a multivariate analysis predictive of mortality. 
  • Clinical predictors of post-traumatic seizures in children with head trauma. 
  • Combat exposure, posttraumatic stress disorder, and head injuries differentially relate to alterations in cortical thickness in military Veterans. 
  • Development of a finite element model for blast brain injury and the effects of CSF cavitation. 
  • Diagnosis and neuroanatomical correlates of depression in brain-damaged patients. Implications for a neurology of depression. 
  • Differences in outcomes of mandatory motorcycle helmet legislation by country income level: A systematic review and meta-analysis. 
  • Diving-related injuries in children <20 years old treated in emergency departments in the United States: 1990-2006. 
  • Documented head injury in early adulthood and risk of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. 
  • Dynamic Response and Residual Helmet Liner Crush Using Cadaver Heads and Standard Headforms. 
  • Effect of mannitol on cerebral blood volume in patients with head injury. 
  • Effect of neuromuscular blockers and opiates on the cerebrovascular response to endotracheal suctioning in adults with severe head injuries. 
  • Effect of short-duration hyperventilation during endotracheal suctioning on intracranial pressure in severe head-injured adults. 
  • Effectiveness of a Statewide Abusive Head Trauma Prevention Program in North Carolina. 
  • Endotracheal suctioning in adults with head injury. 
  • Exercise-related dissection of craniocervical arteries: CT, MR, and angiographic findings. 
  • Facial fractures of the upper craniofacial skeleton predict mortality and occult intracranial injury after blunt trauma: an analysis. 
  • Foul tip impact attenuation of baseball catcher masks using head impact metrics. 
  • Glutamine. 
  • Glutamine: role in critical illness and ongoing clinical trials. 
  • Head injury and combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Hippocrates' influence on the origins of neurosurgery. 
  • Hospital based emergency department visits attributed to child physical abuse in United States: predictors of in-hospital mortality. 
  • Identifying Factors Associated with Head Impact Kinematics and Brain Strain in High School American Football via Instrumented Mouthguards. 
  • Incremental contribution of reported previous head injury to the prediction of diagnosis and cognitive functioning in older adults. 
  • Initial management of pediatric head trauma. 
  • Intensive management of severe head injury. 
  • Interpersonal violence and head injury: The effects on treatment for PTSD. 
  • Intracerebral hemorrhage and head trauma: common effects and common mechanisms of injury. 
  • Laboratory Evaluation of Shell Add-On Products for American Football Helmets for Professional Linemen. 
  • Measuring agreement between patient and proxy responses to multidimensional health-related quality-of-life measures in clinical trials. An application of psychometric profile analysis. 
  • Otologic surgery following ear trauma. 
  • Parieto-Occipital Injury on Diffusion MRI Correlates with Poor Neurologic Outcome following Cardiac Arrest. 
  • Pediatric Coronal Suture Fiber Alignment and the Effect of Interdigitation on Coronal Suture Mechanical Properties. 
  • Pediatric head contours and inertial properties for ATD design. 
  • Pediatric imaging perspective: acute head trauma--Is skull radiography useful? 
  • Prescribing of potentially harmful drugs to patients admitted to hospital after head injury. 
  • Prevalence and clinical correlates of neuropsychiatric symptoms in dementia. 
  • Process evaluation of a statewide abusive head trauma prevention program. 
  • Psychological distress and line-of-duty head injuries in firefighters. 
  • R-SCAN: Imaging for Pediatric Minor Head Trauma. 
  • Radiation Dose Considerations in Emergent Neuroimaging. 
  • Ranitidine improves lymphocyte function after severe head injury: results of a randomized, double-blind study. 
  • Rapid infusion system for neurosurgical treatment of massive intraoperative hemorrhage. 
  • Re: Axonal injury in head injuries with very short survival. 
  • Ruptured maxillary retention cyst: cause of unilateral rhinorrhea after trauma. 
  • Severe traumatic head injury affects systemic cytokine expression. 
  • Shaken baby syndrome: a flawed biomechanical analysis. 
  • Spontanous resolution of post-traumatic carotid-cavernous sinus fistula. 
  • Surface friction in near-vertex head and neck impact increases risk of injury. 
  • Surgical perspectives in craniofacial trauma. 
  • Survey of patient and physician influences and decision-making regarding CT utilization for minor head injury. 
  • The Image Gently Think A-Head Campaign: Keep Calm and Image Gently. 
  • The Think A-Head campaign: an introduction to ImageGently 2.0. 
  • The compressive stiffness of human pediatric heads. 
  • The evaluation of casualties from Operation Iraqi Freedom on return to the continental United States from March to June 2003. 
  • The impact of prior head injury on outcomes following group and individual cognitive processing therapy among military personnel. 
  • The influence of reduced friction on head injury metrics in helmeted head impacts. 
  • The influence of surface padding properties on head and neck injury risk. 
  • The pathology of extracranial scalp and skull masses in young children. 
  • The relationship between endotracheal suctioning and changes in intracranial pressure: a review of the literature. 
  • The relationship of blunt head trauma, subarachnoid hemorrhage, and rupture of pre-existing intracranial saccular aneurysms. 
  • The response of the adult and ATD heads to impacts onto a rigid surface. 
  • The response of the pediatric head to impacts onto a rigid surface. 
  • Towards a composite scoring solution for the Neurobehavioral Functioning Inventory. 
  • Trends in Head Computed Tomography Utilization in Children Presenting to Emergency Departments After Traumatic Head Injury. 
  • Visual memory-deficit amnesia: a distinct amnesic presentation and etiology. 
  • Vitreous hemorrhage after intracranial hemorrhage. 
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  Keywords of People

  • McLendon, Roger Edwin, Professor of Pathology, Pathology
  • Mithani, Suhail Kamrudin, Associate Professor of Surgery, Surgery, Plastic, Maxillofacial, and Oral Surgery
  • Sampson, John Howard, Robert H., M.D. and Gloria Wilkins Professor of Neurosurgery, in the School of Medicine, Biomedical Engineering