Cerebral atrophy is one of the serious sequelae ofsevere head injury. 1 Neuropathologicalinvestigation has revealed that cerebral atrophy iscaused by either diffuse axonal injury or cerebralhypoxia and ischemia. Secondary ipsilateral cerebralatrophy caused by acute subdural hematomas in infantshas been reported recently, but this unilateral cerebralatrophy after head injury in adult patients has rarelybeen reported.
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