Cases of "delayed" subdural posttraumatic hygromas
Beuth, W.; Osiński, P.; Kasprzak, H.
Neurologia i Neurochirurgia Polska 30(1): 87-92
1996
ISSN/ISBN: 0028-3843 PMID: 8657354 Document Number: 455914
The authors present 6 cases of uni- or bilateral subdural hygromas that appeared a few weeks following severe head injury. Such hygromas were named by the authors as "delayed" ones. Surgical evacuation of hygroma resulted in patient's status improvement in all 6 cases, based on well-known theories of posttraumatic hygromas origin, the authors try to explain patomechanism of the "delayed" hygromas.