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The outcome of head injury in the human depends upon the interaction of pre-injury factors, the nature of the injury to the skull and brain and secondary factors that lead to further brain dysfunction and damage (Miller and Becker, 1982). The important pre-injury factors are age, the psychosocial status of the patient and state of health prior to injury, in particular previous brain injury, hydrocephalus or stroke.
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Miller, J.D. (1986). Relevance of Primary and Secondary Brain Damage for Outcome of Head Injury. In: Baethmann, A., Go, K.G., Unterberg, A. (eds) Mechanisms of Secondary Brain Damage. NATO ASI Series, vol 115. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5203-7_26
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