Traumatic axonal injury revealed by postmortem magnetic resonance imaging: a case report

Diffuse traumatic white matter injuries caused by shear stress to axons were first suggested about some six decades ago [1,2]. Studies of primates by Gennarelli et al. [3] and of humans by Adams and Graham [4 –9] describe diffuse axonal injury (DAI), caused by high-magnitude angular or rotational acceleration, rendering the victim unconscious from the time of injury, typically without definitive structural changes seen on computed tomography (CT) scan. This distinct clinicopathological entity was consi dered to be widespread and irreversible [4,7].

Source: Legal Medicine - October 1, 2018 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Yohsuke Makino, Nobutaka Arai, Yumi Hoshioka, Maiko Yoshida, Masatoshi Kojima, Takuro Horikoshi, Hiroki Mukai, Hirotaro Iwase Source Type: research