title: Traumatic lesions of corpus callosum: early multidetector CT findings.
abstract: Corpus callosum is one of the common sites of brain lesion, whose involvement is an indicator of a more severe prognosis, produced by traumatic shearing stresses resulting in diffuse axonal injury (DAI). Computed tomography (CT) in acute phase is considered to have a limited role for the detection of non-hemorrhagic or petechial hemorrhagic DAI lesions. New generation multidetector CT scanners allow faster acquisition of thinner-slice images and post-processing reformations. Three patients with severe closed head trauma underwent CT examinations using a multidetector scanner, a few hours and the day after injury. The review of original images with narrow window width and integration with reconstruction of thinner slices from raw-data and post-processing multiplanar reformations (MPR) helped to detect the onset of hypodense or predominantly hypodense areas of corpus callosum, not present at admission and afterwards confirmed by MRI.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Ospedale del Ceppo, Piazza San Lorenzo, 51100 Pistoia, Italy. davgadda@tin.it
authors.forename: Davide
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gadda
authors.forename: Luca
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Carmignani
authors.forename: Letizia
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Vannucchi
authors.forename: Alessandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bindi
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003337:Corpus Callosum / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000293:injuries* / Q000473:pathology; D020833:Diffuse Axonal Injury / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D042241:Early Diagnosis; D005260:Female; D015600:Glasgow Coma Scale; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed