1. Acute intracranial epidural haematoma in a basketball player: a case report
- Author
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R Datti, S L Gentile, and R Pisani
- Subjects
Adult ,Hematoma, Epidural, Cranial ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Basketball ,Epidural haematoma ,Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation ,Temporal lobe ,Parietal Bone ,Temporal bone ,medicine ,Humans ,Orthopedics and Sports Medicine ,Skull Fractures ,business.industry ,Head injury ,Occipital bone ,Temporal Bone ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,Temporal Lobe ,Surgery ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Occipital Bone ,business ,Parietal bone ,Research Article - Abstract
A 35-year-old basketball player suffered a serious double head injury during a match. An acute left temporal epidural haematoma, which necessitated surgical drainage, developed. The exceptional circumstances of the trauma are discussed and the literature concerning basketball-related injuries is reviewed.
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- 1995