Subarachnoid haemorrhage due to upper cervical trauma.
Open Access
- 1 December 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Journal of Clinical Pathology
- Vol. 36 (12) , 1335-1341
- https://doi.org/10.1136/jcp.36.12.1335
Abstract
Seventeen cases are reported in which fatal subarachnoid haemorrhage was associated with injury to the upper cervical region. Most of these cases were alcohol-intoxicated, most had sustained their injuries in an altercation, and death was usually but not invariably rapid. It is proposed that trauma to the upper cervical region can cause subarachnoid haemorrhage, by a mechanism involving tracking of blood into the subarachnoid space from a damaged vertebral artery or one of its branches.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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