Citation

Pittella JE, Gusmão SS. Arq. Neuropsiquiatr. 1999; 57(3B): 848-852.

Vernacular Title

Contusao cerebral em vitimas fatais de acidente de transito. Frequencia e

Affiliation

Departamento de Anatomia Patológica e Medicina Legal, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1999, Associacao Arquivos De Neuro-Psiquitria)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

10751922

Abstract

A morphological study, macro and microscopical, was made of brain lesions in 120 victims of fatal road traffic accidents. Contusions of the brain were identified in 67 (55.8%) of the patients. The contusions especially affected the orbital surfaces of the frontal lobes (27.8%) and the temporal poles (19.8%). The recent brain contusion was associated with a skull fracture in 70.1% of the cases and with a diffuse axonal injury in 89.5%. These can be explained by the association of contact and inertia from the road traffic accidents. Old contusions were identified in six patients (5.0%).

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