Chronic traumatic encephalopathy in a national football league player: part II.

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Published in Neurosurgery on November 01, 2006

Authors

Bennet I Omalu1, Steven T DeKosky, Ronald L Hamilton, Ryan L Minster, M Ilyas Kamboh, Abdulrezak M Shakir, Cyril H Wecht

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. bennet.omalu@verizon.net

Associated clinical trials:

LED Therapy for the Treatment of Concussive Brain Injury | NCT02383472

Traumatic Brain Injury and Risk for Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (TBI and CTE) | NCT02003183

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