Traumatic brain injury: classification, clinical features, neuroimaging

Abstract

Modern classification of traumatic brain injury with identification of clinical and morphological variants is provided. Neurological semiotics and neuroimaging diagnosis of concussion, mild, moderate and severe cerebral contusion, compression of the brain with epidural, subdural and intracerebral hematomas are described based on the analysis of observations of the National Medical Research Center for Neurosurgery named after Academician N.N. Burdenko.

Keywords

• traumatic brain injury
• brain damage
• intracranial hematoma
• neuroimaging.