Complications of pediatric head injury.

This review will consider those complications of head injury which are uncommon and/or unexpected and which may occur in the injured child before or after an intervention. As it is assumed that the reader is quite familiar with the complications of depressed fracture, hematoma and lacerated brain, the paper will consider instead those other neurologic complications which potentially may arise after head trauma of varying severity. As the subject is vast, attention will be given to only some of the more interesting complications idiosyncratic in children.