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"Tomber dans les pommes" – can head injury cause brain damage?
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Those readers looking for some amusing leisure time reading need look no further than the December issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal. The enterprising authors—Antoine Cyr (age 5 years) and his brother Louise-Oliver (age 7 years) in conjunction with their father—analysed the adventures of Tintin in an attempt to discover why the Tintin grew no taller from 1929 to 1975, never had a girlfriend, and never needed to shave.1
After an exhaustive review of the published literature, episodes of head injury were identified by the authors and the injury severity determined by the duration of loss of consciousness (as measured by the number of frames before Tintin returned to normal activity) and the number of stars revolving above Tintin’s head following injury.
Rather surprisingly a total of 50 episodes of head injury were identified (43 were AAN grade 3 concussion injuries) in Tintin’s career. The mean
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