title: Diagnosis and treatment of diffuse axonal injury in 169 patients.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate current diagnosis and therapeutic effect and outcome of diffuse axonal injury (DAI) in 169 patients.
  
  
  METHODS
  The data of 169 DAI patients treated in the Second, Sixth, Eighth and Ninth Hospitals of Shenzhen and Shekou Hospital from January 2001 to January 2005 were collected. The imaging features, classification, GCS (Glasgow coma scale), treatment and outcome of the 169 patients were retrospectively analyzed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The simpler the imaging features, the closer the focus of DAI to the periphery of hemisphere and the higher the GCS score, the better the prognoses of DAI patients will be.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The prognoses of DAI patients are closely related to the imaging features and classification, GCS and clinical treatment.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, the Sixth Hospital of Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518052, China.
authors.forename: Jia-Yong
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Zhen-Jiu
authors.initials: ZJ
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Cheng-Xuan
authors.initials: CX
authors.lastname: Feng
authors.forename: Hong-Wei
authors.initials: HW
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Wei-Ping
authors.initials: WP
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Hong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhang