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LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Year : 2013  |  Volume : 16  |  Issue : 4  |  Page : 178

Bifrontal acute subdural hematoma


Consultant Neurosurgeon, Neurospine Clinic, Satpathy Nagar, Mughalsarai, Uttar Pradesh, India

Date of Web Publication21-Jan-2014

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Pankaj Kapoor
Consultant Neurosurgeon, Neurospine Clinic, Satpathy Nagar, Mughalsarai - 230 101, Uttar Pradesh
India
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DOI: 10.4103/1118-8561.125584

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Kapoor P. Bifrontal acute subdural hematoma. Sahel Med J 2013;16:178

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Kapoor P. Bifrontal acute subdural hematoma. Sahel Med J [serial online] 2013 [cited 2024 Mar 28];16:178. Available from: https://www.smjonline.org/text.asp?2013/16/4/178/125584

Sir,

The article "Bifrontal acute subdural hematoma" published in the Sahel Medical Journal vol 16(2) (April-June 2013) makes an interesting reading. [1] In the article, the authors report the clinical, radiological findings, and successful management of a rare case of traumatic acute bilateral bifrontal subdural hematoma. [1] While we appreciate the efforts of the authors in describing the patient, there were some inconsistencies in the manuscript. The image quality of [Figure 1], [Figure 3], and [Figure 4] was poor. Although the authors claim that the lesion was bilateral, but it was largely unilateral as evident on computed tomogram (CT) just extending to the left of the midline [Figure 1]. [1] It is supported by the obliteration of the frontal horn of the right lateral ventricle; the left frontal horn was partly visible. [2],[3],[4],[5],[6],[7],[8] If there were a large bifrontal lesion it would have led to medial compression of frontal horn of the lateral ventricles resulting in a narrow, slit-like elongated ventricles ("squeezed ventricle," "hare's ears sign," or "rabbit's ears"). [6],[7],[8],[9] There was an inconsistency between intra-operative and post-operative images. The intra-operative bone cuts on the left side was much more lateral [Figure 2]; [1] however, on the CT scan it was just away from the midline. In addition, [Figure 2] did not show the exact location of the hematoma as there was a gauze piece covering the area hiding the underlying brain and its view. For such a large lesion that was only on the right a right frontal craniotomy would have been sufficient. There was no indication for a bicoronal frontal craniotomy. On the follow-up CT scan, there was large infarct involving the whole of the right frontal lobe, part of the right basal ganglion, extending into the left medial frontal lobe through corpus callosum [Figure 4]. [1] This finding was neither described in the case report nor discussed. It would be difficult for a the patient described by the author [1] to recover without deficits in immediate post-operative period. Finally, most of the references were not related to acute subdural hematoma but chronic subdural hematoma which has different pathology and outcome.

 
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1.Singh S, Mohammad A, Bedi S. Bifrontal acute subdural hematoma. Sahel Med J 2013;16:77-9.  Back to cited text no. 1
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2.Baechli H, Nordmann A, Bucher HC, Gratzl O. Demographics and prevalent risk factors of chronic subdural haematoma: Results of a large single-center cohort study. Neurosurg Rev 2004;27:263-6.  Back to cited text no. 2
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