title: Gliding contusions in nonmissile head injury in humans.
abstract: "Gliding" contusions, ie, hemorrhagic lesions in the parasagittal white matter, were analyzed in 434 fatal nonmissile head injuries in humans. It is concluded that gliding contusions are a type of diffuse brain damage occurring at the moment of injury. Gliding contusions are significantly associated with road-traffic accidents, with the absence of a skull fracture or a "lucid interval," and with the presence of diffuse axonal injury and deep hemispheric traumatic hematomas.
mesh_terms: D000063:Accidents, Traffic; D001924:Brain Concussion / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D002543:Cerebral Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D006259:Craniocerebral Trauma / Q000150:complications*; D006406:Hematoma / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans