Post-Traumatic Subdural Higroma: A Case Report

Evaluations of blunt head trauma are often made in forensic medicine practice. There has been accumulated detailed knowledge on the subject of subarachnoid haemorrhage, epidural and subdural haematoma which occur related to these injuries. However, another complication, which is less frequently seen and about which less knowledge has been gathered is traumatic subdural higroma [1]. Although the formation of traumatic subdural higroma is not fully understood, it has beeen reported as a clinical event which develops as a result of cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) leaking into the subdural space because of arachnoid membrane tears following trauma [2,3]. Although generally seen at small dimensions clinically, a small proportion reach a large size and show an effect of pressure on the brain tissue. When a pressure effect is created, a surgical decompression procedure must be applied as it is a life-threatening feature [3].