title: Traumatic intraventricular hemorrhage with a good prognosis.
abstract: We report a 10-year-old girl with an isolated traumatic intraventricular hemorrhage following a traffic accident, who had a good prognosis. Her neurological examination upon arrival was normal and she had no complaint other than headache and vomiting. Computed tomography on admission showed a hemorrhage in the lateral and fourth ventricles. She had a Glasgow Coma Score of 15, and she was thus given only antiepileptic drugs for prophylaxis and followed. Computed tomography that was repeated 5 days after admission showed no blood and all ventricles were of normal size. There was no vascular pathology on magnetic resonance imaging and magnetic resonance angiography. The patient remains well 5 months after her accident. Intraventricular hemorrhage does not always have a poor prognosis.
authors.affiliation: Duzce University, School of Medicine, Department of Neurosurgery, Duzce, Turkey. merihis@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Merih
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Is
authors.forename: Ferruh
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Gezen
authors.forename: Mehmet
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Akgul
authors.forename: Murat
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dosoglu
mesh_terms: D000063:Accidents, Traffic; D002533:Cerebral Angiography; D020202:Cerebral Hemorrhage, Traumatic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D002648:Child; D006259:Craniocerebral Trauma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D011379:Prognosis; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed