OSSIFIED AND CALCIFIED EPIDURAL HEMATOMA INCIDENTALLY FOUND 40 YEARS AFTER HEAD-INJURY - CASE-REPORT

Authors
NAGANE M OYAMA H SHIBUI S NOMURA K NAKANISHI Y KAMIYA M
Citation
M. Nagane et al., OSSIFIED AND CALCIFIED EPIDURAL HEMATOMA INCIDENTALLY FOUND 40 YEARS AFTER HEAD-INJURY - CASE-REPORT, Surgical neurology, 42(1), 1994, pp. 65-69
Citations number
24
Categorie Soggetti
Neurosciences,Surgery
Journal title
Surgical neurology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00903019
Volume
42
Issue
1
Year of publication
1994
Pages
65 - 69
Database
ISI
SICI code
0090-3019(1994)42:1<65:OACEHI>2.0.ZU;2-6
Abstract
The authors report a 57-year-old man with an ossified and calcified ep idural hematoma found incidentally 40 years after incurring a severe h ead injury. Since the introduction of computed tomography (CT) scan, f ew such cases have been described in the literature. A characteristic intracranial ''double-outlined'' contour on plain skull x-ray films an d CT scans represented bone formation and calcification of the hematom a capsule adjacent to the dura.