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ArticleEmergency radiology2026

Routine repeat computed tomography of the head in patients with mild traumatic brain injury: is it really necessary?

Anastasios A Politis, Kyriacos Evangelou, Evgenia Lani, Mary Solou, Panagiotis Zemperligkos, Evangelos Papadopoulos, Stamatis Banos, Maria Gavra, Georgios Savvanis, Ioannis Ydreos and 5 more

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Article in Emergency radiology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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15 authors.

Anastasios A PolitisSecond Department of Neurosurgery, 'Attikon' University Hospital, Athens Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece. tsspolitis1@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6899-1937
Kyriacos EvangelouSecond Department of Neurosurgery, 'Attikon' University Hospital, Athens Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3240-5366
Evgenia LaniSecond Department of Neurosurgery, 'Attikon' University Hospital, Athens Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0007-6168-4230
Mary SolouSecond Department of Neurosurgery, 'Attikon' University Hospital, Athens Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3562-576X
Panagiotis ZemperligkosSecond Department of Neurosurgery, 'Attikon' University Hospital, Athens Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Evangelos PapadopoulosSecond Department of Neurosurgery, 'Attikon' University Hospital, Athens Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6843-4062
Stamatis BanosSecond Department of Neurosurgery, 'Attikon' University Hospital, Athens Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9796-8197
Maria GavraDepartment of CT and MRI Imaging, 'Agia Sofia' Children's Hospital, Athens, Greece.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6267-5287
Georgios SavvanisSecond Department of Neurosurgery, 'Attikon' University Hospital, Athens Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Ioannis YdreosSecond Department of Neurosurgery, 'Attikon' University Hospital, Athens Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0002-4347-4866
Nikolaos HaliasosSecond Department of Neurosurgery, 'Attikon' University Hospital, Athens Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Pantelis StavrinouDepartment of Neurosurgery, Centre for Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Aristotelis KalyvasSecond Department of Neurosurgery, 'Attikon' University Hospital, Athens Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0222-488X
Efstathios J BoviatsisSecond Department of Neurosurgery, 'Attikon' University Hospital, Athens Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8000-9739
Lampis C StavrinouSecond Department of Neurosurgery, 'Attikon' University Hospital, Athens Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0903-9705

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ContusionGlasgow coma scaleHead CTRoutine CTHSubarachnoid hemorrhageTraumatic brain injury

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