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Hacking C, Burst lobe. Reference article, Radiopaedia.org (Accessed on 19 Mar 2025) https://doi.org/10.53347/rID-65491
A burst lobe is an uncommonly used description of traumatic lobar intraparenchymal hemorrhage of the brain that ruptures into the subdural space and communicates with subdural hemorrhage 1.
As traumatic hemorrhages are more common in the frontal and temporal lobes, these lobes are the most affected. It is associated, not unsurprisingly, with high energy trauma and resultant high mortality rates 2.
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1. Finnie JW. Forensic Pathology of Traumatic Brain Injury. (2016) Veterinary pathology. 53 (5): 962-78. doi:10.1177/0300985815612155 - Pubmed
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2. Gusmão SS, Pittella JE. [Burst lobe in victims of fatal road traffic accident. Frequency and association with other head injury]. (1999) Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria. 57 (4): 971-5. Pubmed
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