Subdural Hematoma: Multimedia

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Keywords

head injury, subdural hematoma, epidural hematoma, extraaxial hematoma, intracranial mass lesions, head injuries, intracranial hematomas, traumatic intracranial hematomas, chronic subdural hematoma, CSDH, coagulopathies and ruptured intracranial aneurysms, acute traumatic subdural hematoma, ATSDH, atraumatic subdural hematoma, acute subdural bleeding, brain injury, cerebral atrophy, herniation syndromes, stroke of the posterior cerebral artery distribution, spontaneous subdural hematoma

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