Traumatic brain injury, CT scan

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Computed tomography (CT) scan in axial section of the brain of a 30 year old male patient with traumatic brain injury after a car accident. The CT shows a skull fracture of the right temporoparietal wall (left). There is a wound of the dura mater with presence of a frontal aeric bubble (top). Their is the wound with external and internal hemorrhagic contusion (brain bruises). The patient also has a diffuse internal cerebral oedema associated with a slight displacement of the ventricles.

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