title: Cases from the aerospace residents' teaching file. Case #48. A student pilot is referred for evaluation of a "head injury with post-traumatic amnesia".
abstract: A student pilot is referred for evaluation of a "head injury with post-traumatic amnesia." The case study presents a temporal association of injury and symptoms that were assumed to be related. A differential diagnosis of an amnestic syndrome is presented. Transient global amnesia is discussed as a possible etiology until an EEG revealed an epileptiform abnormality. The aeromedical implications, military and FAA, of the clinical and electrophysiologic findings are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Darnall Army Hospital, Ft. Hood, TX.
authors.forename: W J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Seay
authors.forename: M K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Greenberg
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000337:Aerospace Medicine; D000647:Amnesia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D006259:Craniocerebral Trauma / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005538:Football / Q000293:injuries*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008887:Military Medicine