الفهرس 
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Abstract
A small number of patients with minor head injury will develop life-threatening intracranial haematoma that must be rapidly detected and removed, increase age group among those patients will increase the risk of development of such complications.In sum, the most frequent complications following minor head injury as determined in our results were as the following:1- persistent headache and loss of concentration (30% of cases)2- chronic subdural haematoma (25% of cases)3-Post-traumatic seizures (11% of cases)4-Vertigo and visual disturbances (10% of cases)5-Delayed extradural haematoma (10% of cases)6-Psychological disturbances (5 %of cases).7- Post-traumatic infections (meningitis and brain abscess) (5 % of cases).8- Delayed intracerebral haematoma (2.5 % of cases)9- Post-traumatic obstructive hydrocephalus (1.5 % of cases).An initial G.C.S between 13 to 15 does not necessarily indicate that a patient has sustained a trivial head injury, since 13.5% of such patients will require an operative procedure despite on initially normal level of alertness, an abnormal skull-X ray film will increase the risk of development of complications after minor head injury.Early diagnosis and proper management of associated medical disorders with minor head injury will improve the outcome and reduce mortality rate after minor head injury.