• Acta neurochirurgica · Jan 1999

    Comparative Study

    The prognostic importance of the volume of traumatic epidural and subdural haematomas revisited.

    • W A van den Brink, M Zwienenberg, S M Zandee, L van der Meer, A I Maas, and C J Avezaat.
    • Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
    • Acta Neurochir (Wien). 1999 Jan 1; 141 (5): 509-14.

    AbstractThe size of a traumatic intracranial haematoma at the moment of diagnosis can be impressive. Haematoma thickness is an inaccurate estimator of haematoma volume, and association with patient outcome is controversial. In this study computerized volumetry of offline digitized CT scans was used to relate haematoma volume with both patient characteristics on admission and at the six months outcome. This retrospective study covered the time period 1981/1990. Ninety eight patients operated upon for an epidural haematoma and 91 patients operated upon for an acute subdural haematoma were analyzed. The relative importance of clinical data, CT scan parameters, and calculated haematoma volumes was determined by multivariate analysis. Volume of the haematoma did not correlate with preoperative neurological condition or the six months outcome in either group, and consequently is not of additional prognostic value.

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