Seniors aged ≥ 65 with an ICD-10 discharge diagnosis of fall, fracture, sprain, strain, laceration, contusion, superficial injury, or bursitis were included for possible analysis.
The top three reasons for emergency room visits in 2007 were for sprains and strains, superficial injuries and contusions, and upper respiratory infections, according to Ryan Mutter, a senior economist at the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Each soldier had standard T1, gradient-echo (T2*), and susceptibility-weighted MR imaging (MRI) to assess focal brain injury, microbleeds, superficial siderosis, gliosis, contusions, and DTI.
Two of the major categories of injury, superficial injury and contusions, and open wounds, demonstrated a dramatic rise in incidence about the age of one.
Injuries that are most frequently missed by CT are contusions or superficial lesions of solid organs, small soft tissue contusions, hematoma or emphysema, small brain contusions or hematoma (suggested to be smaller than 3 mm), and vessel transections or lacerations.
The majority (80%%) of injuries to other and unspecified body regions were contusions and superficial injuries.
Three-quarters of traumatic renal artery injuries are minor (contusions or superficial lacerations), requiring only conservative management [31].
Superficial injuries, such as contusions, lacerations and unspecified superficial injuries were also frequently presented in association (see Table 4).
The patients' age was stratified into three age groups(<5 years,6-10 years and11-15 years).The type of injury was classified according to Birmingham's Eye Trauma Terminology classification BETTS) [ 10] as closed globe injuries for contusions, lamellar lacerations and superficial foreign body while ruptures, penetrating, perforating and intraocular foreign body laceration as open globe injury.
Corneal and/or sclera lacerations occurred in 36.8%, Contusion in 23% and superficial foreign body in 11.5% of eyes (Table 3).
