title: [Epidemiology, diagnosis and prognosis in the clinical syndrome of brain concussion].
abstract: The paper is a continuation of the preliminary communication in Neurologia i Neurochirurgia Polska No 3/1995. The study in 1993-1995 included a group of 50 patients who had clinical symptom complex of brain concussion. After preliminary neurological assessment within 3 days in all cases brain CT and cerebral perfusion determination (SPECT M-PAO) were obtained. Focal reduction of blood flow was demonstrated in 47 cases, mostly in the temporal area (78%). In 30 cases EEG was done finding in 18 disturbances of cerebral electric activity. In 9 cases neuropsychological examination was done. After 3 months control study of cerebral perfusion was done in 28 cases and in 27 flow changes were found to persist. Another follow-up examination in 6 cases after a year demonstrated in all of them focal disturbances of cerebral blood flow associated with symptoms of postconcussion syndrome.
authors.affiliation: Kliniki Neurochirurgii CSK WAM w Warszawie.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Furtak
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Chmielowski
authors.forename: J K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Podgórski
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001921:Brain / Q000098:blood supply / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D001924:Brain Concussion / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D002648:Child; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010552:Personality Assessment; D011044:Poland / Q000453:epidemiology; D011379:Prognosis; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
vernacular_title: Epidemiologia, diagnostyka i rokowanie w klinicznym zespole wstrzaśnienia mózgu.