cerebral contusion

People with cerebral contusion may require intensive care and close monitoring.

In the heat of a game, it may be hard to see or feel symptoms relating to cerebral contusions.

They are most severe if associated with cerebral contusions.

Death was due to fractures of the skull and severe cerebral contusion.

If a cerebral contusion leads to a coma, recovery can be very long and rehabilitation extensive.

Rules exist within each sport to help prevent cerebral contusions and traumatic brain injuries.

Short-term effects of cerebral contusions can range from a mild headache to feeling lightheaded for a few days.

Cerebral contusion is bruising of the brain tissue.

Cerebral contusions and other injuries can occur in any sport, not just in the traditional "collision" sports.

The most popular sport to cause cerebral contusions is American football due to the drastic acceleration/deceleration of the brain.

In a game, athletes notice when they have the symptoms of a cerebral contusion and should take themselves out of the game.

In sports, most cerebral contusions are caused when the brain is either suddenly accelerated, decelerated, or strikes an immovable object.

The effects of a cerebral contusion depend on the cause of the injury and what part of the brain was most affected.

In a similar injury, cerebral contusion (bruising of brain tissue), blood is mixed among tissue.

Like bruises in other tissues, cerebral contusion can be associated with multiple microhemorrhages, small blood vessel leaks into brain tissue.

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However, victim Long had a skull fracture with cerebral contusions as a result of distinct incision lacerations caused by blunt force trauma.

The initial injury may be a concussion, or it may be another, more severe, type of head trauma, such as cerebral contusion.

Coup and contrecoup injuries are associated with cerebral contusions, a type of traumatic brain injury in which the brain is bruised.

Since cerebral swelling presents a danger to the patient, treatment of cerebral contusion aims to prevent swelling.

These improvements reduce the risk of cerebral contusions by providing more padding around the skull and a chin strap that keeps the helmet snug.

A CT scan is the quickest method to diagnose cerebral contusions because it can be performed immediately and have fairly exact findings.

"However, among the nonhelmeted subjects, the majority suffered severe injuries such as cerebral contusions, subdural hematomas or comas, and 4 percent died," the report said.

Cerebral contusion is a bruise of brain tissue that commonly results from contact of the brain with the inside of the skull.

Early seizures can be caused by factors such as cerebral edema, intracranial hemorrhage, cerebral contusion or laceration.