Thalamic Nuclei After Human Blunt Head Injury

Thalamic nuclei after human blunt head injury.

Paraffin-embedded blocks from the thalamus of 9 control patients, 9 moderately disabled, 12 severely disabled, and 10 vegetative head-injured patients assessed using the Glasgow Outcome Scale and identified from the Department of Neuropathology archive. Neurons, astrocytes, macrophages, and activated microglia were differentiated by Luxol fast blue/cresyl violet, GFAP, CD68, and CR3/43 staining...

Differential responses in three thalamic nuclei in moderately disabled, severely disabled and vegetative patients after blunt head injury.

In vivo imaging techniques have indicated for many years that there is loss of white matter after human traumatic brain injury (TBI) and that the loss is inversely related to cognitive outcome. However, correlated, quantitative evidence for loss of neurons from either the cerebral cortex or the diencephalon is largely lacking. There is some evidence in models of TBI that neuronal loss occurs wi...

Predicting Epilepsy after Blunt Head Injury.

Lesions in the cerebral hemispheres after blunt head injury.

Though this paper is limited to lesions in the cerebral hemispheres after non-penetrating head injury, they are unlikely to be confined to the hemispheres, or to the brainstem for that matter. No attempt is made to deal with all the types of lesion which may occur, in particular those due to systemic factors, such. as fat embolism or anoxia and complications such as meningitis or epilepsy, are ...

Multilevel Duodenal Injury after Blunt Trauma

Duodenal trauma is an uncommon injury associated with significant mortality and morbidity. Upper gastrointestinal radiological studies and computed tomography may lead to the diagnosis of blunt duodenal trauma. Exploratory laparotomy remains as the ultimate diagnostic test if a high suspicion of duodenal injury continues even in the face of absent or equivocal radiographic signs. The majority o...