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Abstract
Head injury is a common challenge in forensic practice as it is one of the main contributors to death in assaults, falls and transportation injuries. Head trauma will cause different pattern of injury and the different structures of the head may be involved to varying degrees. The scalp, the skull, meninges, superficial vessels and the brain may be damaged singly or in combination at the moment of impact.
In Egypt, head trauma is a serious public health problem and constitutes high percentage of cases referred to hospitals but updated statistical records for head trauma in Egypt are lacking.
Researchers are looking for other diagnostic or screening methods that can be used to detect the intracranial lesions and predict outcome as CT scan and MRI are not possible for all trauma patients. Hence, the aim of this work is to evaluate the medico-legal application of ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase-L1 as a prognosticator in mild and moderate head injured patients.
The current study was conducted on forty-five adult participants admitted to Tanta University Hospital throughout six months from June, 2018 to December, 2018 and were divided in to 3 groups: group (1): Included 15 mild head injured patients. group (2): Included 15 moderate head injured patients. group (3): Included 15 normal volunteers (control group). The current study excluded cases admitted after 24 hours of head injury, patients with history of previous neurological illness, psychiatric impairment, tumors, associated trauma and those who needed surgical intervention.