Utility of Repeat Head CT in Patients with Blunt Traumatic Brain Injury Presenting with Small Isolated Falcine or Tentorial Subdural Hematomas.
K K DevulapalliJason F TalbottJ NarvidA GeanB RehaniGeoffrey T ManleyA UzelacEsther L YuhMichael C HuangPublished in: AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology (2018)
Isolated falcotentorial subdural hematomas in blunt traumatic brain injury average 2.8 mm in thickness and do not increase in size on short-term follow-up CT. Present data suggest that repeat CT in patients with mild traumatic brain injury with isolated falcotentorial subdural hematoma may not be necessary.