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Traumatic brain injury

Date: May 2011

Definition:

Death of brain tissue due to traumatic injury resulting in permanent neurological deficit with persisting clinical symptoms.

No change since April 2007

 

What does this mean?

Damage to brain tissue could be caused by an external trauma such as a severe head injury received in a road traffic accident.

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