Diagnosis and treatment of diffuse axonal injury in 169 patients.
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.
Yang
Jia-Yong
JY
Department of Neurosurgery, the Sixth Hospital of Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518052, China.
Yang
Zhen-Jiu
ZJ
Feng
Cheng-Xuan
CX
Li
Hong-Wei
HW
Li
Wei-Ping
WP
Zhang
Jun
J
Zhang
Hong
H