epidural hemorrhage , auch: epidural haemorrhage BrE , auch: epidural hematoma

This may cause difficulty in distinguishing between subdural and epidural hemorrhages.

Epidural hemorrhage is bleeding between the dura mater and the skull.

The lucid interval, which depends on the extent of the injury, is a key to diagnosing epidural hemorrhage.

My guess is he's going to have fractures of the left temporal parietal skull and a big epidural hemorrhage.'

Much more common than epidural hemorrhages, subdural hemorrhages generally result from shearing injuries due to various rotational or linear forces.

Although he never lost consciousness and walked off the field, McCarthy suffered an epidural hemorrhage, brain contusion and skull fracture in the accident.

Symptoms of subdural hemorrhage have a slower onset than those of epidural hemorrhages because the lower pressure veins bleed more slowly than arteries.

Though much faster than chronic subdural bleeds, acute subdural bleeding is usually venous and therefore slower than the usually arterial bleeding of an epidural hemorrhage.

There are case reports of lumbar puncture resulting in perforation of abnormal dural arterio-venous malformations, resulting in catastrophic epidural hemorrhage; this is exceedingly rare.

A more reliable indicator of subdural hemorrhage is its involvement of a larger portion of the cerebral hemisphere since it can cross suture lines, unlike an epidural hemorrhage.

Head trauma during delivery can lead to a number of conditions include: caput succedaneum, cephalohematoma, subgaleal hemorrhage, subdural hemorrhage, subarachnoid hemorrhage, epidural hemorrhage, and intraventricular hemorrhage.

McCarthy managed to get back on to his feet, however, he subsequently underwent surgery for 2 hours to relieve cranial pressure after CT scans revealed McCarthy had suffered an epidural hemorrhage, a brain contusion, and a skull fracture.

People who burn up in fires come in with fractured bones and epidural hemorrhages, looking for all practical purposes as if someone worked them over and then torched the house to disguise a homicide, when the injuries are actually postmortem and caused by extreme heat.

This can be the result of cerebral hemorrhage, possibly due to a ruptured aneurysm or other cerebrovascular accident (a hemorrhagic stroke) or head trauma resulting in contusion and associated intracranial bleeding either within or outside the meninges (a subdural or epidural hemorrhage).