CNS Trauma: Radiologic-Pathologic Correlation

Creation Date: 3/25/99

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CNS Trauma: Radiologic-Pathologic Correlation

CNS TRAUMA

CNS TRAUMA (Grades)

CLOSED HEAD TRAUMA

ACUTE NEUROLOGIC EVENT

ACUTE NEUROLOGIC DEFICIT:

TRIAGE -- MEDICAL

TRIAGE -- SURGICAL

RADIOLOGIC EVALUATION:

INDICATION FOR ACUTE C.T.

HIGH-RISK (FOR ABNL CT):

MODERATE-RISK (FOR ABNL CT):

PREPARATION OF PT:

CNS TRAUMA

CNS TRAUMA:

CT IN HEAD TRAUMA (200 CT’s, reported in 1980)

CENTRIPETAL APPROACH

CENTRIPETAL APPROACH

CNS TRAUMA -- SCALP

CNS TRAUMA -- SUBGALEAL

CNS TRAUMA -- SKULL Fx

BASILAR SKULL Fx:

BASILAR SKULL Fx:

TEMPORAL BONE FRACTURES

BLOW-OUT FRACTURE

HEALING SKULL FRACTURE:

MEMBRANES

MEMBRANE HEMATOMAS:

CNS TRAUMA EPIDURAL HEMATOMA

EPIDURAL HEMATOMA - Source of Bleeding

EPIDURAL HEMATOMA

CNS TRAUMA - Clinical Presentation

EPIDURAL HEMATOMA

SUBPERIOSTEAL HEMATOMA

EPIDURAL HEMATOMA - Angiography

EPIDURAL HEMATOMA -- EXCEPTIONS

EPIDURAL HEMATOMA - Summary

SUBDURAL HEMATOMA - Source of Blood

SUBDURAL HEMATOMA

SUBDURAL COLLECTIONS

SUBDURAL HEMATOMA

SUBDURAL HEMATOMA

SUBDURAL HEMATOMA

SUBDURAL HEMATOMA

SUBDURAL HEMATOMA

SUBDURAL HEMATOMA

SHAKING INJURIES

REVERSAL SIGN

INTERHEMISPHERIC FISSURE and the FALX SIGN

TENSION PNEUMOCEPHALUS:

SUBDURAL HEMATOMA

SUBDURAL HEMATOMA - Source of Rebleeding

SUBDURAL HEMATOMA

SUBDURAL HEMATOMA

CEREBRAL CONTUSION

CEREBRAL CONTUSION (naming conventions)

CEREBRAL CONTUSION

CEREBRAL CONTUSION

SHEARING INJURIES

SHEARING INJURY:

DIFFUSE AXONAL INJURY

DIFFUSE AXONAL INJURY

HEAD TRAUMA:

CNS TRAUMA - Summary

Author: James G. Smirniotopoulos 

Email: jsmirnio@usuhs.mil

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