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Aim: In this study, we aimed to investigate the relationship between minor head injury and post-traumatic headache (PTH) in patients admitted to the emergency department due to minor head trauma. Material and Methods: Patients admitted to Emergency Medicine Department with minor head trauma between 01.01.2009 - 31.12.2010 were planned to be taken to this prospective study. Demographic characteristics, detailed risk factors, type of trauma, duration of amnesia, brief history of headaches, psychiatric diseases, history of drug use, findings of the physical and neurological examinations made after admission, before discharged and after 3 months, x-ray and CT findings of all patients with and without PTH were recorded in the standard data entry form. Patients with severe head injury, consciousness levels of stupor and coma, pregnancy, under the age of 18 were excluded. In this study, SPSS 17.0 software package was used for statistical analysis of all the data. The statistical significance level of all tests was p |
