Intracranial hemorrhage

Acute hematoma is seen by non-contrast imaging as an area of high density. CT can detect acute intracerebral blood as small as 2mm, due to contrast between high density of blood and low density of surrounding brain.    

Epidural hematoma  

MRI

Epidural Hematoma

Subdural Hematomas (SDH)

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Diagnosis: Chronic Subdural Hematoma

55 year-old patient with chronic myelogenous leukemia with low platelet count.

  • A: Left frontal chronic subdural hematoma (arrows) seen as an area of low-density with crescentic inner margin, compressing the adjacent brain.
  • B: Left frontal subdural hematoma was completely evacuated using burr holes in the skull, but the right chronic subdural hematoma has increased in size in the follow-up CT done 19 days later (arrows) which was also subsequently evacuated.
Subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH)

Subarachnoid Hemorrhage / Subdural Hemorrhage

  • Arrowheads point to subarachnoid blood in the sulci and SA space.
  • Black arrow points to subdural blood.
  • White arrow points to shift of midline to right.

 

Intracerebral Hemorrhage (ICH)

Diagnosis: Acute Intracerebral Hematoma

Acute intracerebral hematoma within the right temporal lobe (arrow) with surrounding edma (E).

60 year-old patient with melanoma. Hemorrhage is from metastatic tumor bleed. Acute hematoma is seen by non-contrast imaging as an area of high density. CT can detect acute intracerebral blood as small as 2mm, due to contrast between high density of blood and low density of surrounding brain (arrows).    

 

Intraventricular hemorrhage

Shunt induced Intraventricular Hemorrhage

  • Arrow points to shunt.
  • V: Intraventricular blood
  • Arrowheads point to normal CSF density.