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3373284

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
1988-6-24
pubmed:abstractText
The association of acute subdural hematoma (SDH) and diffuse axonal injury has received little attention in the literature. The authors report the clinicopathological findings in six patients who died of severe head injury in whom computerized tomography revealed acute SDH as the predominant lesion. All patients were injured in road traffic accidents and lost consciousness on impact. The mean total contusion index was 17.4 and sever contusions were seen in only two cases. All patients presented histological criteria of intracranial hypertension (pressure necrosis focus in one or both parahippocampal gyri). Hypoxic brain damage was evident in the postmortem examination of three patients. In three cases, macroscopic hematic lesions were observed in the corpus callosum. All patients had widespread axonal retraction balls disseminated in the white brain matter. Three patients who survived for more than 11 days had microglial clusters. In some patients with a head injury, acute SDH may be only an epiphenomenon of a primary impact lesion of variable severity: that is, a diffuse axonal injury. In these cases, the final outcome is fundamentally dependent on the severity of the subjacent diffuse axonal injury.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0022-3085
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
68
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
894-900
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1988
pubmed:articleTitle
Acute subdural hematoma and diffuse axonal injury after severe head trauma.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Neurosurgery, Ciudad Sanitaria Valle de Hebrón, Barcelona, Spain.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article