Aimed at ED middle grades with an interest in CT brain interpretation.
Case series of CT findings following head trauma. These should give you a flavour of both the common and more unusual traumatic findings.
- Try to establish your diagnosis before looking at the report.
- They are in no particular order and of varying quality, just like real life....
- None of these images are normal. Establishing that the CT is normal and sending your patient home based on this decision is often the most tricky part of the process.
- Non-traumatic pathology is often an incidental finding on head CT for trauma. You need to appreciate normal variants and incidental pathologies and also manage these appropriately (e.g. incidental infarct will need secondary stroke prevention consideration).
- A normal head CT does not rule out traumatic pathology. Treat the patient. Think of spinal and arterial pathology if you have acute neurology and a normal scan.
Follow these Radiopaedia.org links for more images and information
- skull fractures
- epidural haematoma
- acute subdural haematoma
- chronic subdural haematoma
- traumatic subarachnoid haemorrhage
- brain contusion
- brain edema
- diffuse axonal injuries
Enjoy
Tom
Playlist information:
| Number of slides in playlist: | 35 |
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| Playlist author: | Tom Mitchell |
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