Internal medicine

Retrospective cohort study

Injury prevention

Poison control

Psychiatry

Logistic regression

Surgery

Univariate analysis

Glasgow Coma Scale

Emergency medicine

Subarachnoid hemorrhage

Intracerebral hemorrhage

Midline shift

Traumatic brain injury

Hematoma

Trauma center

Multivariate analysis

Emergency department

Intraparenchymal hemorrhage

Brain Contusion

Anesthesia

Medicine

Injury Severity Score

Journal of neurosurgery

Here, the authors examined the factors involved in the volumetric progression of traumatic brain contusions. The variables significant in this progression are identified, and the expansion rate of a brain bleed can now effectively be predicted given the presenting characteristics of the patient.

Blossoming contusions: identifying factors contributing to the expansion of traumatic intracerebral hemorrhage