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Complications: - post-traumatic stress disorder - headache [1,2,3] Management: - all military personnel returning from combat should be screened for traumatic brain injury [1]

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References

  1. Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program (MKSAP) 16 American College of Physicians, Philadelphia 2012
  2. Afari N, Harder LH, Madra NJ et al PTSD, combat injury, and headache in Veterans Returning from Iraq/Afghanistan. Headache. 2009 Oct;49(9):1267-76 PMID: 19788469
  3. Theeler BJ, Erickson JC. Mild head trauma and chronic headaches in returning US soldiers. Headache. 2009 Apr;49(4):529-34 PMID: 19220499
  4. Wilk JE, Thomas JL, McGurk DM, Riviere LA, Castro CA, Hoge CW. Mild traumatic brain injury (concussion) during combat: lack of association of blast mechanism with persistent postconcussive symptoms. J Head Trauma Rehabil. 2010 Jan-Feb;25(1):9-14 PMID: 20051900