Post-traumatic Intraventricular Haemorrhage: A Reappraisal

Abstract

Ten patients are described in whom intraventricular bleeding occurred after blunt head injury. A mechanism is proposed to explain this phenomenon by drawing analogies with neonatal intraventricular haemorrhage and the pathological findings in strangulation. The outcome in the patients described seems more favourable than in those hitherto reported.

Key Words:

• Computerised tomography
• head injury
• intraventricular haemorrhage
• cerebral ventricle