Resumo

VEGA ZUNIGA, Franz. Valoración médico legal de las secuelas neuro-sicológicas post trauma cráneo-encefálico. Med. leg. Costa Rica [online]. 2001, vol.17, n.2, pp.27-36. ISSN 2215-5287.

The head injury are produced mainly in accidents of the route and in labor accidents, implying an important repeal on the part of the entities insurers and of the State. A high percentage of the compensations that they are paid is made with base in the calculation of the Permanent Functional Inability that the expert forensic medical settles down who should base his expert approach in scientific and objective methods, discarding previous states and simulations, so frequent in our means.

Palavras-chave : Head injury; Sequels; Neuropsychological; Neurological; Permanent Inability.