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Descriptor English: Contrecoup Injury
Descriptor Spanish: Lesiones por Contragolpe
Descriptor lesión por contragolpe
Scope note: Lesión en la que el daño se localiza en el lado opuesto al lugar del impacto primario. Un golpe en la parte posterior de la cabeza que da lugar a una lesión de contragolpe en los lóbulos frontales del cerebro es el tipo más común. 
Descriptor Portuguese: Lesão de Contragolpe
Descriptor French: Blessure par contrecoup
Entry term(s): Contre coup Injury
Contre-coup Injuries
Contre-coup Injury
Contrecoup Injuries
Injuries, Contre-coup
Injuries, Contrecoup
Injury, Contre-coup
Injury, Contrecoup
Tree number(s): C10.900.300.350.300.250
C26.224
C26.915.300.450.500.250
C26.974.382.200.250
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D056886
Scope note: An injury in which the damage is located on the opposite side of the primary impact site. A blow to the back of head which results in contrecoup injury to the frontal lobes of the brain is the most common type.
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CN congenital
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
Public MeSH Note: 2010
History Note: 2010
DeCS ID: 53522
Unique ID: D056886
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Date Established: 2010/01/01
Date of Entry: 2009/07/06
Revision Date: 2016/02/25
Contrecoup Injury - Preferred
Concept UI M0529726
Scope note An injury in which the damage is located on the opposite side of the primary impact site. A blow to the back of head which results in contrecoup injury to the frontal lobes of the brain is the most common type.
Preferred term Contrecoup Injury
Entry term(s) Contre coup Injury
Contre-coup Injuries
Contre-coup Injury
Contrecoup Injuries
Injuries, Contre-coup
Injuries, Contrecoup
Injury, Contre-coup
Injury, Contrecoup



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