SUBDURAL HEMATOMA AND EFFUSION AS A RESULT OF BLAST INJURIES

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Abstract
In this series of 10 patients with subdural hematoma and effusion due to blast, definite neurologic findings have been infrequent or minimal. As a result, some of the patients had repeatedly been considered to have a "functional" condition, and such diagnoses as "psychoneurosis," "war neurosis" and "traumatic neurosis" had been made. Several had been classified as having "post-concussional" states. Should this practice be general, it is evident that many will be medically discharged from the armed services with relatively curable organic lesions. The social aspects of such a situation are extremely important, to say nothing of the damage to the personality, future adjustment and earning power of any such patient. He will be considered as "neurotic" or "shell shocked" and in his disabled condition may well become a public charge. Furthermore, it is probable that prolonged presence of a subdural hematoma or effusion will result in permanent cerebral changes and

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