Abstract

VARELA HERNANDEZ, Ariel; MOSQUERA BETANCOURT, Gretel; CARDOSO NUNEZ, Oscarlyns  and  PARDO CARDOSO, Guillermo. Calcified chronic subdural hematoma. A case report. AMC [online]. 2008, vol.12, n.6, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1025-0255.

The chronic subdural hematoma constitutes a frequent disease in daily neurosurgical practice. Currently its diagnosis of premature form is performed in the majority of patients, since the introduction of imaging's modern techniques. An 84 years old patient with history of cephalea, akinetic mutism and cuadriparesis, whose tomographic exam showed a right hemispheric supratentorial extraxial collection with massive calcification; the exeresis was performed by means of a craniotomy and the histopathological study confirmed the diagnosis of chronic subdural hematoma. It was concluded that, when constitute the massive calcification of the chronic subdural hematoma a rare form of imaging presentation at present, should contemplate another entities in the differential diagnostic like neoplasias and intracranial vascular malformations; In addition, increases the surgical complexity since it is essential the practice of a craniotomy for the evacuation of the lesion.

Keywords : Hematoma subdural crónico; case studies.

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