@article{ref1,
title="Diffuse axonal injury in head trauma",
journal="Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry",
year="1989",
author="Blumbergs, P. C. and Jones, N. R. and North, J. B.",
volume="52",
number="7",
pages="838-841",
abstract="Diffuse axonal injury (DAI) as defined by detailed microscopic examination was found in 34 of 80 consecutive cases of head trauma surviving for a sufficient length of time to be clinically assessed by the Royal Adelaide Hospital Neurosurgery Unit. The findings indicate that there is a spectrum of axonal injury and that one third of cases of DAI recovered sufficiently to talk between the initial head injury producing coma and subsequent death. The macroscopic &quot;marker&quot; lesions in the corpus callosum and dorsolateral quadrants of the brainstem were present in only 15/34 of the cases and represented the most severe end of the spectrum of DAI.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0022-3050",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}