Cerebral, Traumatic Brain Hemorrhage Definition

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Cerebral, Traumatic Brain Hemorrhage: Bleeding into the CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORPUS CALLOSUM; BASAL GANGLIA, or subcortical white matter following CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA. DIFFUSE AXONAL INJURY, cerebral edema, and INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION are frequently associated conditions. Relatively frequent clinical manifestations include SEIZURES; APHASIA; VISION DISORDERS; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; PARALYSIS, and COMA.

Synonym: traumatic intracerebral hemorrhage, traumatic cerebral parenchymal hemorrhage, traumatic cerebral intraparenchymal hemorrhage, traumatic cerebral intraparenchymal hematoma, traumatic cerebral hemorrhage, traumatic cerebral hematoma.