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BRAIN INJURIES IN CT PRESENTED BY:RAKESH VALLITTAYIL
BRAIN INJURYANY INJURY OCCURING IN BRAIN OF A LIVING ORGANISM BRAIN DAMAGE- DISTRUCTION OR DEGENERATION OF BRAIN CELLS. TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY – DAMAGE OCCURES WHEN OUT SIDE FORCE TRAUMATICALLY INJURES THE BRAIN. STROKE – VASCULAR EVENT WHEN CAUSING DAMAGE TO BRAIN. AQUIRED BRAIN INJURY – DAMGE AFTER BIRTH EITHER TRAUMATIC OR NOT TRAUMATIC OR DUE TO OUT SIDE OR INSIDE
SKULL FRACTURE
A skull fracture is a break in one or more of the eight bones that form the cranial portion of the SKULL.
TYPES Linear Depressed Diastatic Basilar
LINEAR FRACTURES BREAK IN BONE THAT
TRAVERSE FULL THICKNESS OF BONE THE SKULL FROM OUTER TO INNER SHELL
MOST common USUALLY REQUIRES NO
INTERVENTIONS BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA
DEPRESSED SKULL FRACTURE
WHEN THE BROCKEN PORTION DISPLACED INWARD
DUE TO BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA
HIGH RISK DUE TO PRESSURE ON THE
BRAIN OR HEMORRHAGE.
DIASTIC FRACTURE
WHEN THE FRACTURE LINE TRANSVERES ONE OR MORE SUTURES OF THE SKULL CAUSING WIDENING OF SUTURE.USUALLY SEEN IN CHILDREN
BASILAR FRACTURE
LINEAR FRACTURES OCCURE IN SKULL BASE INCLUDING SPHENOID ETHMOID TEMPORAL AND OCCIPITAL BONE.
VERY RARE TYPE OF FRACTURE
INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGEINTRA AXIAL HEMORRHAGE (INSIDE THE BRAIN TISSUE)
INTRA CEREBRAL HEMMORRHAGE (ICH)CEREBRAL CONTUSION
EXTRA AXIAL HEMORRHAGE (OUT SIDE THE BRAIN TISSUE)
EXTRADURAL HEMMORRHAGE (EDH)SUBDURAL HEMMORRHAGE (SDH)SUBARACHANOID HEMMORRHAGE (SAH)INTRAVENTRICULAR HEMMORRHAGE (IVH)
INTRA CEREBRAL HEMMORRHAGE (ICH)OVAL OR ROUND SHAPED SINGLE OR MULTIPLECOMMON LOCATION IS BASAL GANGLIAIT MAY EXTEND TO VENTRICLES.CAN BE DUE TO HYPERTANSION,TRAUMA,ANEURISM AND AVM.IT CAN CAUSE MASS EFFECT
CEREBRAL CONTUSIONS BRUISE OF THE BRAIN
TISSUE SMALL –DANGEROUS
BECAUSE IT WILL CAUSE AXION DAMAGE. LARGE-LESS DANGEROUS.
MENINGES THE MEMBRAINS THAT ENVELOP THE BRAIN.
1. DURA MATER – OUTER 2. ARACHANOID MATER –MIDDLE
3. PIA MATER- INNER
EXTRADURAL OR EPI DURAL HEMORRHAGE (EDH)BETWEEN INNER SURFACE OF THE SKULL AND OUTER LAYER OF DURA.ASSOCIATED WITH FRACTUREARTERIAL BLOODBICONVEX IN SHAPE
SUBDURAL HEMATOMABETWEEN DURA MATTER AND THE BRAIN RESULTING IN TEARING OF VENOUS BRIDGEVENOUS BLOODCRESCENT SHAPEDACUTE SDH: DUE TO TRAUMA MOST LETHALCHRONIC SDH:OVER A PERIOD OF TIMEPROGNOSIS -GOOD
EDH VS SDH
SUB ARACHANOID HEMORRHAGE (SAH)
BLEEDING INTO SUB ARACHANOID SPACEFROM CEREBRAL ANEURISM OR INJURY
INTRAVENTRICULAR HEMORRHAGE (IVH)
BLEEDING INTO VENTRICULAR SYSTEMDUE TO TRAUMA OR STROKECOMMON IN PREMATURE INFANTSIT WILL INCREASE THE INTRACRANIAL
PRESSURE WHICH CAN RESULT IN FATAL BRAIN HERNIATION
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