%0 Journal Article
%T Contus£¿o cerebral em v¨ªtimas fatais de acidente de transito: frequ¨ºncia e associa£¿£¿o com outras les£¿es cranioencef¨¢licas
%A PITTELLA
%A JOS¨¦ EYMARD HOMEM
%A GUSM£¿O
%A SEBASTI£¿O SILVA
%J Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
%D 1999
%I Academia Brasileira de Neurologia - ABNEURO
%R 10.1590/S0004-282X1999000500018
%X a morphological study, macro and microscopical, was made of brain lesions in 120 victims of fatal road traffic accidents. contusions of the brain were identified in 67 (55.8%) of the patients. the contusions especially affected the orbital surfaces of the frontal lobes (27.8%) and the temporal poles (19.8%). the recent brain contusion was associated with a skull fracture in 70.1% of the cases and with a diffuse axonal injury in 89.5%. these can be explained by the association of contact and inertia from the road traffic accidents. old contusions were identified in six patients (5.0%).
%K head injury
%K road traffic accident
%K cerebral contusion.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0004-282X1999000500018&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en