Traumatic basal subarachnoid haemorrhage caused by the impact of a golf ball: a case report.
A 50-year-old male was hit by a high-speed golf ball on the left lateral side of his neck. He collapsed immediately and was sent to hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The autopsy showed an extensive basal subarachnoid haemorrhage. Careful gross and histological examinations disclosed a rupture of the right vertebral artery at a site very close to the bifurcation. It was estimated that the impact of the golf ball on the left side of his neck resulted in the rupture of the contralateral vertebral artery, owing to its hyperextension. Although there are many reports on traumatic basal subarachnoid haemorrhage, the present type of trauma seems rare to our knowledge.
Department of Legal Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, 1-20-1 Handayama, Hamamatsu 431-3192, Japan. kanako@hama-med.ac.jp
Kanako
K
Watanabe-Suzuki
Osamu
O
Suzuki
Hideki
H
Nozawa
Isao
I
Kosugi
Akira
A
Ishii
D001344:Autopsy; D006055:Golf; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012421:Rupture; D020206:Subarachnoid Hemorrhage, Traumatic / Q000209:etiology*; D014711:Vertebral Artery / Q000293:injuries