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<journal-meta>
<journal-id>1409-0015</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Medicina Legal de Costa Rica]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Med. leg. Costa Rica]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>1409-0015</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Asociación Costarricense de Medicina Forense]]></publisher-name>
</publisher>
</journal-meta>
<article-meta>
<article-id>S1409-00152020000200006</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Daño axonal difuso en accidentes de tránsito: Reporte de caso y revisión bibliográfica]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Diffuse axonal injury in traffic accidents: Case report and literature review.]]></article-title>
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<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Céspedes Solórzano]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Paola]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad de Costa Rica Departamento de Medicina Legal del Poder Judicial ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Costa Rica</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2020</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2020</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>37</volume>
<numero>2</numero>
<fpage>6</fpage>
<lpage>13</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S1409-00152020000200006&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S1409-00152020000200006&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S1409-00152020000200006&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen Los accidentes de tránsito son una de las principales causas de lesiones y muertes en la población general, se ha descrito que aproximadamente el 60% de las muertes por accidentes de tránsito son ocasionadas por el trauma craneoencefálico, siendo que el daño axonal difuso es una causa frecuente de coma y discapacidad grave. Dentro de los hallazgos más importantes en la autopsia médico legal a nivel macróscopico se encuentran las petequias en cuerpo calloso, hemorragias en sustancia blanca, entre otros y a nivel microscópico se observan edema axonal reactivo diseminado. En el presente artículo se comentará un caso de daño axonal difuso secundario a un accidente de tránsito, además se realizará una revisión del tema abarcando los puntos más importantes a tomar en cuenta desde el punto de vista médico legal.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract Traffic accidents are one of the main causes of injuries and deaths in the general population, it has been described that approximately 60% of deaths from traffic accidents are caused by head trauma, diffuse axonal damage is a cause frequent coma and severe disability after head trauma, among the most important findings in the legal medical autopsy at the macroscopic level are the petechiae in the corpus callosum, hemorrhages in white matter, among others and at the microscopic level disseminated reactive axonal swelling. In this article, a case of diffuse axonal damage secondary to a traffic accident will be discussed, and a review of the subject will be carried out covering the most important points to be taken into account from the legal medical point of view.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Traffic accidents]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[head trauma]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[axonal diffuse injury.]]></kwd>
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