Spontaneous appearing and disappearing acute traumatic intracranial haematomas - an interesting clinical entity case reports and review of literature

ABSTRACT

Two cases of appearing and disappearing traumatic intracranial haematomas have been described. In the first case, with an initiol normal CT brain scan, a delayed intracerebral haematomas appeared ten hours after injury, while in the second case, an acute subdural haematoma, seen immediately after traumatic brain injury [TBI], disappeared ten hours later. The importance of a delayed CT brain scan in cases of TBIs has been emphasised