title: Clinical features of diffuse axonal injury.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To analyze the mechanism of diffuse axonal injury (DAI) and study the relationship between DAI and brain concussion, brain contusion, and primary brain stem injury.
  
  
  METHODS
  The clinical data and iconographic characteristics of 56 patients with DAI were analyzed retrospectively.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Traffic accidents were the main cause of DAI. Among t he 56 cases, 34 were injured for at least twice, and 71.43% of the patients were complicated with contusion.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  It is considered that DAI is a common pattern of primary brain injury, which is often underestimated. And DAI includes cerebral concussion and primary brain injury, and is often complicated by cerebral cortex contusion. Therefore, it is very simple and practical to divide primary brain injuries into local and diffuse injuries.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, First Affiliated Hospital, West China University of Medical Sciences, Chengdu 610041, China.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jing
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ju
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: He
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: He
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Mao
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001924:Brain Concussion / Q000473:pathology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D020833:Diffuse Axonal Injury / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged