epidural haematoma

Consequently, a traumatic blow to the pterion may rupture the middle meningeal artery causing an epidural haematoma.

There is no other area of anaesthesia or medicine in which rare events (such as aspiration or epidural haematoma) dictate the pattern of practice so strongly.

His pupils maintained that he was the first accurately to describe the anatomy of movable kidney and epidural haematoma, and to teach that patients with aortic regurgitation are likely to die suddenly.