Intracranial hematomas

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Intracranial hematomas are bad stuff that keep neurosurgeons busy. They are usually diagnosed by imaging (CT head).

Classification

  1. Epidural hemorrhage (extradural hemorrhage).
    • Patient may have lucid interval.[1]
    • Middle meningeal artery.
    • Radiology: biconvex.
  2. Subdural hemorrhage
    • Damaged bridging veins: subdural space between the dura and arachnoid mater.[2]
    • Radiology: crescent shape.
  3. Subarachnoid hemorrhage.
    • Classically caused by aneuryms:[3]
      1. Anterior communicating artery (ACA) - most common.
      2. Middle cerebral artery (MCA) - second most common.
  4. Intracerebral hemorrhage.
    • > 60 ml at presentation (assessed via CT scan) assoc. with > 90% 30 day mortality.[4]

Subarachnoid hemorrhage

  • Abbreviated SAH.

Traumatic SAH

Cerebellar white mater predominant petechial hemorrhage

  • AKA brain purpura.
  • Etiology: fat embolism syndrome secondary to trauma.
  • Image: FE (med.utah.edu).

See also

References

  1. Erşahin Y, Mutluer S, Güzelbag E (April 1993). "Extradural hematoma: analysis of 146 cases". Childs Nerv Syst 9 (2): 96–9. PMID 8319240.
  2. Crooks DA (1991). "Pathogenesis and biomechanics of traumatic intracranial haemorrhages". Virchows Arch A Pathol Anat Histopathol 418 (6): 479–83. PMID 2058082.
  3. Beck J, Rohde S, Berkefeld J, Seifert V, Raabe A (January 2006). "Size and location of ruptured and unruptured intracranial aneurysms measured by 3-dimensional rotational angiography". Surg Neurol 65 (1): 18–25; discussion 25–7. doi:10.1016/j.surneu.2005.05.019. PMID 16378842.
  4. URL: http://stroke.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/24/7/987. Accessed on: 2 September 2010.