A subdural hematoma is diagnosed based on a brain imaging study. If you get medical attention for the symptoms, you will likely have a brain computerized tomography (CT) scan. This quick test can ...

On CT scan, acute blood is bright and chronic blood is dark, similar to CSF. In this case, the patient likely had a previous subdural hematoma, and then rebled. Subdural hematomas are recognized by ...

CT of the cervical spine revealed no acute pathology. CT imaging of the brain revealed an acute 1.3-cm subdural hematoma over the right convexity and 1.5 cm of midline shift to the left.

All the patients underwent follow-up CT at 2 weeks after the ... across the trial had had known head trauma before the development of the chronic subdural hematoma, and 142 of 252 patients ...

Symptoms of subdural hematoma—including weakness, numbness, headaches, nausea, confusion or dizziness—can come on slowly over days or weeks, after a fall or other head injury. "For the last ...

A dramatic, threefold reduction in repeat operations in patients surgically treated for chronic subdural hematoma was achieved when the artery supplying the brain covering was blocked, according to ...

A subdural hematoma is a common neurological condition that occurs after a head injury. It occurs when blood builds up between the outermost covering of the brain (the dura) and the brain itself. Our ...

His Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score at this time was 14. An interpreter was paged to attempt translation for the staff as the patient was taken for CT of the cervical spine and brain.