PMID: 3754720Jun 1, 1986Paper

Gliding contusions in nonmissile head injury in humans

Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
J H AdamsD R McLellan

Abstract

"Gliding" contusions, ie, hemorrhagic lesions in the parasagittal white matter, were analyzed in 434 fatal nonmissile head injuries in humans. It is concluded that gliding contusions are a type of diffuse brain damage occurring at the moment of injury. Gliding contusions are significantly associated with road-traffic accidents, with the absence of a skull fracture or a "lucid interval," and with the presence of diffuse axonal injury and deep hemispheric traumatic hematomas.

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