Surgical Questions and Answers

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3. What are the general classifications of the type of head injury?

Correct answer:

Injuries are usefully classified according to the structures involved (scalp, skull and underlying brain) together with the mechanism of the injury, be it penetrating or blunt, and whether an acceleration/deceleration and/or a rotational brain injury occurred. In reality, isolated injuries are uncommon, and patients more typically experience blunt injury fracturing the skull in which deceleration/acceleration of the brain also occurs.