"Head Injuries, Closed" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Traumatic injuries to the cranium where the integrity of the skull is not compromised and no bone fragments or other objects penetrate the skull and dura mater. This frequently results in mechanical injury being transmitted to intracranial structures which may produce traumatic brain injuries, hemorrhage, or cranial nerve injury. (From Rowland, Merritt's Textbook of Neurology, 9th ed, p417)
| Descriptor ID |
D016489
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
C10.900.300.350 C26.260.382 C26.915.300.450 C26.974.382
|
| Concept/Terms |
Head Injuries, Closed- Head Injuries, Closed
- Head Injuries, Nonpenetrating
- Nonpenetrating Head Injuries
- Nonpenetrating Head Injury
- Injuries, Closed Head
- Head Trauma, Closed
- Closed Head Trauma
- Closed Head Traumas
- Head Traumas, Closed
- Trauma, Closed Head
- Traumas, Closed Head
- Closed Head Injuries
- Closed Head Injury
- Head Injury, Closed
- Head Injury, Nonpenetrating
Head Injury, Blunt- Head Injury, Blunt
- Blunt Head Injuries
- Blunt Head Injury
- Head Injuries, Blunt
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Head Injuries, Closed".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Head Injuries, Closed".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Head Injuries, Closed" by people in this website by year, and whether "Head Injuries, Closed" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
To see the data from this visualization as text,
click here.
| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
|---|
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
To return to the timeline,
click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Head Injuries, Closed" by people in Profiles.