SOL

Question 1

epidural hematoma

Answer 1

children
dura and cranium
middle meningeal artery
trauma
- bright on CT
cant cross suture line

Question 2

subdural

Answer 2

older ppl
bridging veins get stretched from atrophy bringing brain away from them
dura and arachnoid
can cross suture line
moon crescent shape - darker on CT from being venous so older blood

Question 3

intracerebral hematomas

Answer 3

in parenchymal
trauma - size related to how soon discovered
risk factors: lifestyle, CDV because they harden vessels overtime = increased chances of aneurysms
from ruptured arteries - aneurysm, trauma, tumours

Question 4

subarachnoid hematoma

Answer 4

anyone
thunderclap headache - berry aneurysm rupture at a branching point of circle of willis
subarachnoid space, blood in csf
dancing man looking CT

Question 5

herniation types

Answer 5

uncal (trans/tentorial), subfalcine, tonsilar

Question 6

signs of herniation

Answer 6

fixed pupil
hemiparesis
loss of consciousness/coma