Prevalence and Incidence of Microhemorrhages in Adolescent Football Players.
Bhavya R ShahJ M HolcombElizabeth M DavenportChristopher M LackJ M McDanielD M ImpheanYin XiD A RosenbaumJillian E UrbanBenjamin C WagnerA K PowersChristopher T WhitlowJoel D StitzelJoseph A MaldjianPublished in: AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology (2020)
Adolescent football players have a greater prevalence of microhemorrhages compared with adolescent athletes who have never engaged in contact sports. While microhemorrhage incidence during 1 season is not significantly greater in adolescent football players compared to adolescent controls, there is a temporal association between playing football and the appearance of new microhemorrhages.