A subdural hematoma is a collection of blood on your brain’s surface under the skull. This type of bleeding usually happens after a head injury and can be either acute or chronic. Subdural hematomas ...

A person with a head injury requires immediate medical attention. Although a person may not initially feel as if much is wrong, bleeding can occur within the skull. Internal bleeding can lead to ...

What is a subdural hematoma? A subdural hematoma occurs when blood collects between the layers of the tissue surrounding the brain. The most common cause of this condition is usually severe head ...

Hematomas and bruises can appear similar, but hematomas may take longer to heal. Still, you can typically treat both at home ...

DEAR DOCTOR K: My mother is in her 70s. She fell a few weeks ago but seemed fine. Then she started to have double vision and some trouble with balance. A CT scan revealed a subdural hematoma. Her ...

A 48 year-old man became drowsy and confused after a car accident. He had a large bruise over the right temporal region. Subdural Hematoma (Subacute). Axial CT scans. Note the isointense right sudural ...

MANY of the basic works in neurology comment on the rarity of seizures in chronic subdural hematoma. 1–3 Indeed, it is almost a maxim in many neurologic centers that the two are only rarely associated ...

A dramatic, threefold reduction in repeat operations in patients surgically treated for chronic subdural hematoma was achieved when the artery supplying the brain covering was blocked, according to ...

Dexamethasone treatment failed to demonstrate noninferiority to surgery for chronic subdural hematoma and was associated with more complications and a greater risk of later surgery, according to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Rapid SDH demonstrated 92.4% sensitivity and 98.7% specificity in identifying subdural hematoma types. Median ...

What is the most effective method for managing chronic subdural hematomas? Almenawer and colleagues reviewed and summarized data from nearly 35,000 patients with this lesion in 250 studies, including ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — A dramatic, threefold reduction in repeat operations in patients surgically treated for chronic subdural hematoma was achieved when the artery supplying the brain covering was blocked, ...