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Head Trauma: This chapter focuses on the classification, presentation, diagnosis, and treatment of head trauma and the sequelae of head trauma.

Brain Tumors: This chapter focuses on the classification, presentation, diagnosis, and treatment of brain tumors.

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  1. Department of Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

    Doris Kung

  2. Department of Neurology, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX, USA

    Thy Nguyen

  3. Adventist Health, Paradise, CA, USA

    Ritu Das

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Kung, D., Nguyen, T., Das, R. (2019). Head Trauma and Brain Tumors. In: Absolute Case-Based Neurology Review. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11132-8_13

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