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A. Earl Walker, MD; Heinz Karl Leuchs, MD; Helga Lechtape-Grüter, MD; William F. Caveness, MD; Claire Kretschman

Arch Neurol. 1971;24(2):95-100.

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THERE is evidence to suggest that men with head injuries have a higher death rate than the normal population. In a recent review of this subject, Walker and Erculei¹ noted that in the first 15 years after head injury, the death rate is three to four times greater than expected. However, in the available literature there is insufficient data to construct life expectancy tables. For this reason, when in the course of a follow-up study of World War I head injured men it became apparent that with some additional data life expectancy tables might be compiled, further information was sought and obtained from Bavarian bureaus of vital statistics. These sources have made it possible to develop the actuarial tables presented in this paper.

The Experimental Series.—

A study designed to determine the long-term effects of head injury was planned and carried out in 1964 to 1966, using World War . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Baltimore; Munich, Germany; Cologne, Germany; Bethesda, Md

From the Division of Neurological Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (Dr. Walker); Nervenklinik der Universität München, Munich, Germany (Dr. Leuchs); Max Planck Institut fur Hirnforschung, Cologne, Germany (Dr. Lechtape-Grüter); and the National Institutes of Neurological Diseases and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md (Dr. Caveness and Mrs. Kretschmann).

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Aug 3, 1970.

Read before the International Symposium on Head Injuries, Edinburgh, April 14, 1970.

Reprint requests to Johns Hopkins Hospital, 601 N Broadway, Baltimore 21205 (Dr. Walker).

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