Axonal Injury in Head Injury
- 1 January 1983
- book chapter
- Published by Springer Nature
- Vol. 32, 119-123
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-4147-2_17
Abstract
A histological analysis of 324 unselected fatal head injuries disclosed axonal injury in the form of retraction balls in 100 cases: this was severe in 64 and mild in 36. It is suggested that axonal injury exists as a spectrum without there necessarily being selective involvement of the corpus callosum or the rostral brain stem, and that cases with mild axonal injury may be unconscious for only a short time after their injury.Keywords
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