UNLABELLED QUESATIONS UNDER STUDY / PRINCIPLES: This study was designed to compare CT and MR appearances of chronic subdural haematomas as well as CT- and MR-guided measurements of haematoma thicknesses. METHODS CT and MR images of 48 chronic subdural haematomas of 34 patients were reviewed retrospectively. The thickness measurements and imaging characteristics of haematomas were compared. ...

The optimal surgical procedure for patients with calcified and organized chronic subdural haematoma (CSDH), or "armoured brain", has not been established because it is difficult to obtain good re-expansion of the brain after surgery. We present herein the case of a 32-year-old woman with huge calcified CSDH manifesting as refractory headache, periods of unconsciousness, and unsteady gait who ob...

Chronic subdural hematoma (CSDH) is one of the most common clinical entities in daily neurosurgical practice. The diagnosis and treatment are well established, but recurrence, complications, and factors related to these problems, especially in the elderly, are not completely understood. This study evaluated the clinical features, radiological findings, and surgical results in a large series of ...

Originally, all acute subdural hematomas were thought to be hyperdense with respect to brain on CT (1 ). But over the last 1 0-15 years, cases of acute isodense subdural and epidural hematomas have been reported [2-6). Although contrast-enhanced CT has aided in the visualization of chronic isodense subdural hematomas [7), the use of contrast material was not efficacious in two of the acute isod...

BACKGROUND Various surgical methods are recommended for the therapy of chronic subdural hematoma (CSH). In this study, burr-hole continuous drainage (CD) and burr-hole one-time drainage (OTD) methods for the treatment of CSH are retrospectively compared. MATERIAL/METHODS Fifty patients with CSH referred to this clinic between July 1995 and December 2003 were selected for treatment. Twenty-one...

IF THE presence of a chronic subdural haematoma is suspected, the neurosurgical management of the case can be simple, and may consist of no more than an exploratory burr-hole, which at the same time conifirms the diagnosis and cures the condition. Often, however, alternative diagnoses on clinical grounds are likely, and special methods of investigation are preferable. The majority of the cases ...

Thirty-four consecutive adult patients with subdural traumatic hygroma were analysed for clinical evolution, serial computed tomography scan (CT), and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) over a period of several months. Five of the patients presented CT scan and MRI evolution data showing increasing density over a period of 11 days to 6 months post trauma. In these five patients, final clinical an...

BACKGROUND Malignant disease metastasising to the cranial dura is rare. Dural metastases manifesting as a subdural fluid collection and presenting as a chronic subdural hematoma is an uncommon entity with unknown pathophysiology. CASE DESCRIPTION We present a patient with known prostate cancer metastasising to the cranial dura masquerading as a chronic subdural hematoma. The patient presented...