Diseases

Contrecoup Injury

An injury in which the damage is located on the opposite side of the primary impact site. A blow to the back of head which results in contrecoup injury to the frontal lobes of the brain is the most common type.

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Abstract

An injury in which the damage is located on the opposite side of the primary impact site. A blow to the back of head which results in contrecoup injury to the frontal lobes of the brain is the most common type.

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  • Contre-coup Injury
  • Contre coup Injury
  • Contre-coup Injuries
  • Contrecoup Injuries
  • Injuries, Contre-coup
  • Injuries, Contrecoup
  • Injury, Contre-coup
  • Injury, Contrecoup

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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.

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2010

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Contrecoup Injury. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D056886. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D056886
  2. Contrecoup Injury. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_and_contrecoup_injury
  3. Contrecoup Injury. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q927547