3.3 Cranio-Cerebral Injuries

The head injuries' world (the commonest homicide's cause): the scalp-and-skull (the scalp's bruising; the skull's fractures — the linear, the depressed, the comminuted: the force's evidence); the intracranial bleeding's trio (the exam's classic): the extradural (the middle-menigeal's artery — the lucid interval's famous sign), the subdural (the bridging-veins — the slow-bleeding: the battered-spouse's delayed-death), the subarachnoid (the trauma-vs-natural's differential); the brain's injuries (the concussion — the transient; the contusions (the coup-and-contracoup's mechanics); the lacerations; the diffuse axonal injury); the medico-legal questions: the assault's reconstruction (the fall-vs-blow's differential); the delayed death's causation (the injury- and-death's link — the negligence claims' faces); the child's shaking (the shaken-baby syndrome — U5.5's abuse interface).