TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1999//
TI  - Cerebral contusion in victims of fatal traffic accidents. Frequency and association with other craniocerebral lesions
JO  - Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
A1  - Pittella, J. E.
A1  - Gusmão, S. S.
SP  - 848
EP  - 852
VL  - 57
IS  - 3B
N2  - 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%).<p /> <p>Language: pt</p> 
LA  - pt
SN  - 0004-282X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -