MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF BRAIN DAMAGE DUE TO ACCIDENT INJURY THROUGH FORENSIC EXAMINATION

Nguyễn Tuấn Anh1,, Lưu Sỹ Hùng1, Nguyễn Mạnh Hùng1, Đinh Thanh Tuấn1
1 Hanoi Medical University

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Abstract

Brain contusion is damage to the brain parenchyma in the form of foci of contusion, bleeding in brain tissue with different sizes, depth, and depth depending on the degree of trauma, is a common injury in traumatic brain injury caused by road traffic accidents. This is a serious injury that leaves many consequences for the victim such as mental disorders, post-traumatic stress syndrome, post-traumatic encephalopathy, epilepsy, dementia... and more seriously, brain damage can be severe deadly. The study was carried out from January 1, 2015 to December 30, 2018. We have collected 82 cases of victims who died from traffic accidents with brain contusion. According to our research, male victims accounted for the majority (71.95%), female victims accounted for 28.05%, the age group 15 - 29 accounted for the most (40.24%). The majority of brain contusions at the affected place (78.04%), brain contusion due to bone fracture (39.02%), contralateral cerebral contusion (23.17%, common location is frontal lobe (42, 68%), temporal lobe (29.26%).

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