Ossified and calcified epidural hematoma incidentally found 40 years after head injury: case report

The authors report a 57-year-old man with an ossified and calcified epidural hematoma found incidentally 40 years after incurring a severe head injury. Since the introduction of computed tomography (CT) scan, few such cases have been described in the literature. A characteristic intracranial “double...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Surgical neurology 1994-07, Vol.42 (1), p.65-69
Hauptverfasser:	Nagane, Motoo, Oyama, Hiroshi, Shibui, Soichiro, Nomura, Kazuhiro, Nakanishi, Yukihiro, Kamiya, Masuzo
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Calcification Calcinosis - diagnosis Calcinosis - pathology Chronic Disease Chronic epidural hematoma Craniocerebral Trauma - complications Craniocerebral Trauma - pathology Craniotomy Diagnosis, Differential Epidural shell Head injury Hematoma, Epidural, Cranial - diagnosis Hematoma, Epidural, Cranial - etiology Hematoma, Epidural, Cranial - pathology Humans Intradiploic hemorrhage Magnetic Resonance Imaging Male Middle Aged Ossification Parietal Lobe - blood supply Parietal Lobe - pathology Tomography, X-Ray Computed
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Zusammenfassung:	The authors report a 57-year-old man with an ossified and calcified epidural hematoma found incidentally 40 years after incurring a severe head injury. Since the introduction of computed tomography (CT) scan, few such cases have been described in the literature. A characteristic intracranial “double-outlined” contour on plain skull x-ray films and CT scans represented bone formation and calcification of the hematoma capsule adjacent to the dura.
ISSN:	0090-3019 1879-3339
DOI:	10.1016/0090-3019(94)90252-6