Chronic simultaneous bilateral extradural haematomas.
Bilateral extradural haematomas are rare, usually acute, and generally associated with severe trauma and a high mortality. We report the case of a 39-year-old man who presented with chronic simultaneous bilateral extradural haematomas in whom the trauma appeared to be trivial and initially unrecognised and in whom a unilateral evacuation was curative.
Perera
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Neurosurgery Department, Royal Preston Hospital, UK.
Keogh
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AJ
D000328:Adult; D001158:Arteries / Q000293:injuries / Q000601:surgery; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003399:Craniotomy; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral / Q000502:physiology*; D006407:Hematoma, Epidural, Cranial / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008578:Meninges / Q000098:blood supply; D009460:Neurologic Examination; D012887:Skull Fractures / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed