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SUBMITTER: Kane MJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3396767 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kane Michael J MJ Angoa-Pérez Mariana M Francescutti Dina M DM Sykes Catherine E CE Briggs Denise I DI Leung Lai Yee LY VandeVord Pamela J PJ Kuhn Donald M DM
Neuroscience letters 20120612 1
Blast overpressure has long been known to cause barotrauma to air-filled organs such as lung and middle ear. However, experience in Iraq and Afghanistan is revealing that individuals exposed to explosive munitions can also suffer traumatic brain injury (TBI) even in the absence of obvious external injury. The interaction of a blast shock wave with the brain in the intact cranial vault is extremely complex making it difficult to conclude that a blast wave interacts in a direct manner with the bra ...[more]