Post traumatic mirror image basi-frontal extradural hematoma – An unknown enigma and review of literature

Abstract

Reporting a rare case of bilateral basi-frontal (mirror image) extradural hematoma without skull fracture in a 23 year old male following RTA. Patient was unconscious and highly irritable at the time of admission. After resuscitation and pre-operative workup, patient was operated and EDH evacuated bilaterally. Patient did well and discharged in satisfactory condition. To the best of our knowledge based on google and pubmed database search, no such entity like distant, basi-frontal, bilaterally symmetrical (mirror image) EDH, without skull bone fracture have ever been reported in literature so far.

Keywords

• Mirror image
• Basi-frontal
• Extradural hematoma