ABSTRACT
This chapter provides that the themed presentation encourages quick, focused study and detailed answers aid comprehension and encourages familiarity with intracranial haemorrhage with essential diagrams, colour images and sample MRIs. An extradural haemorrhage is usually caused by rupture of the middle meningeal artery from direct trauma to the side of the skull. In this case however, the patient deteriorated over 3 days, whereas if it was an extradural haemorrhage, it would bleed much faster and cause more severe symptoms rapidly. Burr hole evacuation of the haematoma may be possible but in larger subacute haematomas craniotomy may be necessary, or it may be necessary for patients with re-accumulation of the blood following surgery.
