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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 2,398
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/09/2008 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| SCALP CONT. BLUNT FORCE FROM RAKE. STEPPED ON THE HEAD OF A RAKE WHICH SNAPPED BACK & HT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/16/2008 | Age: 84 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| RAKING LEAVES, FELL BACKWARDS ONTO DRIVEWAY. LAC TO BACK OF HEAD. FALL SCALP LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/05/2008 | Age: 85 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| HEAD LAC-FELL ON DRIVEWAY WHILE RAKING LEAVES-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/31/2008 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools, Cabinets, racks, room dividers and shelves |
| A SHOVEL FELL FROM A SHELF IN HIS GARAGE HITTING HEAD, NO LOC >>SCALP LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/26/2008 | Age: 82 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| SCALP LACERATION.PT WAS SHOVELING AND FELL LACERATING SCALP. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/18/2008 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| HIT IN HEAD WITH SHOVEL LAC HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/04/2008 | Age: 64 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| HIT WITH RAKE, DX; SCALP LAC. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/01/2008 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| ACCIDENTALLY HIT IN HEAD WITH A SHOVEL AT SCHOOL. DX-CONTUSION HEAD. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/30/2008 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| 9 Y/O HIT WITH HOE ON TOP OF HEAD BY SIBLING ACCIDENTALLY AT HOME. DX-LAC. SCALP. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/27/2008 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT HIT IN THE HEAD WITH A SHOVEL AT HOME DX/ SCALP LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/23/2008 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| ACCIDENTALLY STRUCK ONTO THE BACK OF HEAD WITH A GARDEN SHOVEL BY BROTH ER>>LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/16/2008 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| A SCYTHE FELL STRIKING PT IN HEAD. DX: CLOSED HEAD INJURY, SCALP ABR. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/14/2008 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| 6 YOM WAS HIT IN HEAD WITH A HOE CLOSED HEAD INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/07/2008 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT WAS PLAYING WITH A FRIEND WHEN HE ACCID. STRUCK HIM IN R SIDE OF HEA D W/ A SHOVEL. NO LOC. DX CHI |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/07/2008 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| DX 1CM SCALP LAC: FOP REPORTS THAT PT W STANDING NEAR HIS BROTHER WHO W RAK'G LEAVES--BRO THREW RAKE STRUCK'G PT IN THE BACK OF THE HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/12/2008 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PATIENT GOT CUT WITH POST HOLE DIGGER. DX; 10 CM LACERATION TO SCALP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/02/2008 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PLAYING OUTSIDE AT HOME, HIT ON HEAD WITH RAKE BY BROTHER; SCALP LA C. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/31/2008 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PATIENT WAS ACCIDENTALLY HIT ON THE HEAD BY A SHOVEL BY 4 Y/O COUSIN. DX-LAC. SCALP. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/27/2008 | Age: 75 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools, Stairs or steps |
| FOOT STUCK ON SHOVEL IN GARDEN, FELL BACKWARDS, HIT STEPS. DX; CLOSED HEAD INJURY, WRIST AND CHEST CONTUSION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/19/2008 | Age: 12 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT WAS ACCIDENTALLY HIT IN THE HEAD WITH A SHOVEL. NO LOC DX: HEAD LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/08/2008 | Age: 39 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Hematoma |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT STRUCK HEAD ON METAL POST DRIVER AT HOME. DX: SCALP HEMATOMA, TONGUE ABR. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/03/2008 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| 5 YOF WAS PLAYING WITH BROTHER WHO HAD A RAKE, THE RAKE FELL HITTING PT ON THE HEAD CAUSING A LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/24/2008 | Age: 29 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| AT HOME HIT HEAD WITH POST HOLE DRIVER DX LACERATION SCALP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/19/2008 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT HAD A POST HOLE DIGGER AND AS HE LIFTED IT HE DROPPED IT ON TO HIS H EAD. DX: 5 CM SCALP LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/15/2008 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT PLAYING WITH A SHOVEL AND SWUNG IT AROUND STRUCK SELF IN THE HEAD SU STAINED A SCALP LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/14/2008 | Age: 81 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| HEAD LAC, PT FELL OVER A SHOVEL HITTING HEAD IN FLOWER GARDEN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/07/2008 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT WAS @ HOME PLAYING WITH ANOTHER 5 YEAR OLD WHEN A METAL SHOVEL WAS THROWN HITTING PT TO HEAD. DX SCALP LACERATION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/01/2008 | Age: 6 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT WAS HIT IN HEAD W/SHOVEL. DX: SCALP LAC 1 CM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/28/2008 | Age: 76 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT RAKING LEAVES WHEN TRIPPED OVER ROCK AND FELL. HIT HEAD ON OTHER ROC K. D: CHI, LACERATION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/25/2008 | Age: 58 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| LACERATION TO HEAD, FELL BACKWARDS ONTO GARDEN HOE. DX-LACERATION SCALP, CLOSED HEAD INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/23/2008 | Age: 61 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools, Porches, balconies, open-side floors or floor openings |
| SCALP LAC. WITH REPAIR: DIGGING OUT ROOTS WITH A PICK, HIT PICK OFF THE PORCH, BOUNCED OFF PORCH, HIT IN HEAD, 2.5 CM |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/17/2008 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT THREW SHOVEL AND HIT HEAD. DX: SCALP LAC 2.5 CM. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/10/2008 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| CUT HEAD WITH SHOVEL;DX LACERATED HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/07/2008 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| HEAD INJURY FORM HIT WITH HANDLE OF SHOVEL. DX-ACUTE HEAD CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/06/2008 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT HIT ON HEAD WITH HOE LAC HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/06/2008 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Concussion |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| STEP ON RAKE, HIT FACE DX: CONCUSSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/04/2008 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| SCALP LAC, PT WAS HIT IN HEAD WITH A SHOVEL WHEN PLAYING WITH FRIENDS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/02/2008 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT PLAYING AT HOME WITH A FRIEND AND ACCIDENTLY HIT IN THE HEAD WITH A SHOVEL LACERATION SCALP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/29/2008 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT USING A SHOVEL TO DIG A STUMP OUT OF THE GROUND THE SHOVEL SNAPED BA CK HITTING PT IN HEAD CLOSED HEAD INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/27/2008 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| IRON GARDEN TOOL FELL ONTO PT'S HEAD. DX: SCALP LAC 3 CM/CONT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/27/2008 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT PLAYING WITH A FRIEND AND ACCIDENTLY HIT IN THE HEAD WITH THE HANDL E OF A GARDEN TOOL LACERATION SCALP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/26/2008 | Age: 89 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT C/O TRIPPED WHILE USING GARDEN TOOL. DX LAC SCALP CONT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/22/2008 | Age: 15 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Hematoma |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| C.H.I.: HEMATOMA FOREHEAD: WALKING IN YARD AT HOME, STEPPED ON A SHOVEL STRUCK WITH SHOVEL RT FOREHEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/22/2008 | Age: 83 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| CHI, PT FELL OVER SHOVEL WHEN DOING YARD WORK |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 04/21/2008 | Age: 89 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT RAKING LEAVES IN HIS YARD AT HOME AND FELL BACKWARDS STRIKING HEAD S USTAINED A CLOSED HEAD INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/08/2008 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT HIT ON HEAD WITH RAKE LAC HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/25/2008 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PULLED A POST HO;E DIGGER DOWN/CHI |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/24/2008 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT WITH LACERATION TO LEFT SIDE OF HEAD AFTER SISTER HIT PT WITH YARD R AKE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/18/2008 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| DX SCALP LAC/POST CONCUSSIVE SYNDROME: ACC HIT HEAD WITH FENCE POST DIGGER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/17/2008 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT W/LAC TO BACK OF HEAD W/A RAKE. DX. LAC HEAD. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/05/2008 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Concussion |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| DX C0NCUSSION: SUSTAINED ACCIDENTAL TRAUMA TO HEAD WITH END OF SHOVEL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/02/2008 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT RECEIVED LACERATION TO HEAD WHEN PLAYING OUTSIDE RUNNING AND FELL ONTO SHOVEL NEIGHBOR WAS USING. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/23/2008 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT PLAYING WITH HIS BROTHER WHEN HE WAS ACCIDENTLY HIT IN THE HEAD WITH A SHOVEL SUSTAINED A SCALP LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/21/2008 | Age: 21 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| DX SCALP LAC, SCALP CONTU: GASH ON TOP OF HEAD, HIT HEAD WITH A SHOVEL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/16/2008 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| PT FELL AND CUT HEAD W/SHOVEL, NO LOC; PARIEAL SCALP LACERATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/20/2008 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Other unpowered garden tools |
| BROTHER HIT PT IN HEAD WITH GARDEN TOOL DX: SCALP LAC |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
|