Acute General Edema of the Brain in Children with Head Injuries

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A FEW months ago I presented to the New England Surgical Society some observations1 based on a series of 7 children, varying in age from ten months to eleven years, who had presented symptoms and signs strongly suggestive of extradural hemorrhage, but whose recovery without operation was so rapid and complete as to cast doubt on this diagnosis. In most cases the child fell and struck his head on the floor or ground, and in about half, there was initial unconsciousness with fairly prompt recovery from this state. Only 2 of the children suffered from traumatic shock. At an interval . . .