Clinical features of diffuse axonal injury
- Author:
Shu JIANG
1
;
Yah JU
;
Yan HE
;
Min HE
;
Boyong MAO
Author Information
1. First Affiliated Hospital West China University of Medical Sciences
- Keywords:
Brain injuries;
Diagnosis: Treatment outcome;
Diffuse axonal injury
- From:
Chinese Journal of Traumatology
2001;4(4):204-207
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective: To analyze the mechanism of diffuse axonal injury (DAI) and study the relationship between DAI and brain concussion, brain contusion, and primary brain stem injury.Methods: The clinical data and iconographic characteristics of 56 patients with DAI were analyzed retrospectively.Results: Traffic accidents were the main cause of DAI. Among the 56 cases, 34 were injured for at least twice, and 71.43％ of the patients were complicated with contusion.Conclusions: It is considered that DAI is a common pattern of primary brain injury, which is often underestimated. And DAI includes cerebral concussion and primary brain injury, and is often complicated by cerebral cortex contusion. Therefore, it is very simple and practical to divide primary brain injuries into local and diffuse injuries.
