We investigated incidence, age distribution in relation to etiology, and localization of spontaneous intracerebral hematoma in 100 consecutive cases. Incidence in the total population of the Giessen area was estimated to be greater than 11/100,000 inhabitants/yr and increased with age. There was a trend toward higher incidence in males. Overall mortality was 27%, 22% of 58 patients aged less th...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW To identify the surgical indications in the treatment of posttraumatic intracranial hematomas and to evaluate the role of external decompression in severe posttraumatic intracranial hypertension. RECENT FINDINGS An evidence-based review resulted recently in the publication of Guidelines for Surgical Management of Traumatic Brain Injury. Unfortunately all published surgical s...

MR scans were obtained at 0.5 and 1.0 T in 40 patients with 46 intracerebral hematomas categorized as hyperacute (0-2 days), acute (3-7 days), subacute (8-14 days), and chronic (15 days to 6 years). In a retrospective review, the signal intensity of the lesions was compared with that of normal white matter of the brain on spin-density, T1-, and T2-weighted spin-echo and T1-weighted gradient-ech...

INTRODUCTION Muscle hematomas are the second most common complication of hemophilia and insufficient treatment may result in serious and even life-threatening complications. Hemophilic dogs and rats do experience spontaneous muscle bleeding, but currently, no experimental animal model is available specifically investigating spontaneous muscle bleeds in a hemophilic setting. AIM The objective ...

spinal epidural haemorrhage may present as back pain associated with radicular symptoms and can be a catastrophic clinical scenario with progression to paraplegia or even sudden death. being a rare entity, it needs a high index ofclinical suspicion to diagnose it. fractures have been documented as a cause of hematorrachis but such hematomas only extend to one or two vertebral segments. large ep...