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There are various types of diffuse brain damage as a consequence of nonmissile head injury, but it is likely that widespread tearing of nerve fibers occurs at the moment of injury in most of these patients. A number of synonyms have been proposed to denote this type of brain damage. Recently, “diffuse axonal injury (DAI)” was preferably used and the concept of DAI has been well recognized not only pathologically [1] but also clinically [2]. However, the details of its clinical features and its influence on prognosis remain to be elucidated. This prospective study was done to investigate the relationship of ICP, cerebral blood flow (CBF) and changes of multimodality evoked potentials (MEPs) with outcome in patients with DAI.
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Park, C.K., Hong, Y.K., Cho, K.S., Baik, M.W., Kang, J.K., Choi, C.R. (1993). Diffuse Axonal Injury: Changes of Cerebral Blood Flow, Intracranial Pressure and Evoked Potentials. In: Avezaat, C.J.J., van Eijndhoven, J.H.M., Maas, A.I.R., Tans, J.T.J. (eds) Intracranial Pressure VIII. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77789-9_125
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