Calcified chronic subdural hematoma with intracerebral rupture forming a subcortical hematoma. A case report.
We report a calcified chronic subdural hematoma which ruptured intracerebrally forming an acute subcortical hematoma in the frontal lobe in a 59-year-old woman with long-standing liver cirrhosis. Both hematoma cavities communicated each other through a small defect within the inner membrane of the subdural hematoma. The content of both hematomas was identical and was of a clay-like clot. The inner membrane around this communication consisted of thick, very vascular granulation tissue with many hemosiderin deposits and was tightly adherent to the cortex. We speculated that a fresh bleeding into the granulation tissue resulted in formation of a subcortical hematoma through a rupture of the inner membrane. Disseminated intravascular coagulation likely played an important role in this unusual condition.
Hirakawa
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Department of Neurosurgery, Chikushi Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan.
Tanaka
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Yoshinaga
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Ohkawa
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Tomonaga
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D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D002540:Cerebral Cortex; D002543:Cerebral Hemorrhage / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006406:Hematoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D006408:Hematoma, Subdural / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D012422:Rupture, Spontaneous; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed