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H: Adult man, 82-years-old, injury to the head about five weeks ago. Repeated Headache and somnolent. Fluctuating level of consciousness. The patient`s daughter notied personality change.

INFO/WWW-LINKS: The chronic haematoma is hypodense (= low attenuation) compared with the adjacent brain.
Fresh blood is high density compared with brain on CT and, at brain windows, appears white. As the clot absorbs, the lesion becomes isodens (2-3 weeks after bleeding) and, later, of low attenuation
Sites of intracranial heamorrhage/haematoma:
1) Between inner tabel and dura = extradural heamorrhage/haematoma
2) Between dura and arachnoid = subdural heamorrhage/haematoma
3) Between arachnoid and brain surface = subarachnoid heamorrhage/haematoma
4) Within brain = intracerebral heamorrhage/haematoma
5) Within ventricles = intraventricular heamorrhage/haematoma

D: At brain windows evidence of a chronic left-sided frontoparietal subdural haematoma with typical crescentic shape and low attenuation (hypodense).

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