In addition to physical trauma, other types of brain injury, such as stroke, can also produce focal and diffuse injuries.

Though swelling itself is a diffuse type of injury, it can result from either focal or diffuse injury.

Concussion is considered a mild form of diffuse axonal injury.

Contrecoup, which may occur in shaken baby syndrome and vehicle accidents, can cause diffuse axonal injury.

The violent shaking of an infant that causes shaken baby syndrome commonly manifests as diffuse injury.

Severe diffuse axonal injuries often lead to comas or vegetative states.

Concussion may be a milder type of diffuse axonal injury.

This bulb is called a retraction ball, the hallmark of diffuse axonal injury.

A vegetative state can result from diffuse injury to the cerebral hemispheres of the brain without damage to the lower brain and brainstem.

When associated with diffuse axonal injury, the corpus callosum and the brain stem are common locations for laceration.