Haemangioma in the chest wall is a very rare entity, seldom described in the literature. We report the case of a 23 year old woman presenting with independent, cervical subdural and intercostal haemangiomata. She suffered several episodes of recurrent, self-limiting subdural haemorrhage before diagnosis was made by magnetic nuclear resonance, aortography and selective intercostal angiography. S...

When an infant or young child presents with subdural haemorrhage, the diagnostic priority is to exclude physical child abuse. A team approach should be adopted for the clinical child protection investigation. The diagnostic process is inevitably one of detective work; appropriate radiological, ophthalmological, haematological, biochemical, and postmortem investigations are discussed.

In three cases of subdural haematoma which resembled primary subarachnoid haemorrhage the diagnosis was made only by cerebral angiography. Angiography should be done whenever the diagnosis is in doubt.

29 definite intracranial haemorrhages and 4 suspected ones occurred during a 25-month period during which 10 072 live infants were born. There were 4 subdural haemorrhages (all fatal), 4 isolated subarachnoid haemorrhages (2 fatal), and 21 intraventricular haemorrhages (all fatal--2 beyond the neonatal period). There was no evidence of a causal relation between intraventricular haemorrhage and ...

three cases of spontaneous haemorrhage in the spinal canal, and the history of this condition, as it appears in the literature, was presented. In none of the cases did the haemorrhage result from an angioma; in two cases the bleeding was subdural and in one case extradural. The authors felt that slight trauma, which was usually held responsible for these episodes, was probably coincidental and ...

Arachnoid cysts (ACs) are congenital malformations that may develop anywhere in the subarachnoid space along the cerebrospinal axis but are mostly observed in the temporal fossa and Sylvian fissure, predominantly in the left side. ACs account for 1% of all intracranial space-occupying lesions. ACs are a potential risk factor for subdural haematoma in all age groups following a traumatic head in...

Intracranial haemorrhage is commonly found at necropsy in association with hyaline membrane disease. The bleeding usually occurs in the subarachnoid or intraventricular sites (Hutchison, Kerr, Douglas, Inall, and Crosbie, 1964), but its cause is as yet poorly established. Cerebral haemorrhage unrelated to hyaline membrane disease frequently occurs in premature infants (Craig, 1938), and anoxia ...