Table 2. List of the most common locations of contusions and traumatic microbleeds*.
Location | Contusions | Location | Traumatic micro-‧hemorrhages | ||
n | % (rel.) | n | % (rel.) | ||
Frontal | 117 | 36.6 (75) 2.2 | Frontal | 124 | 38.8 (83.8) |
– Isolated polar | 7 | 5.3 | – Isolated | 38 | 11.9 (25.7) |
– Isolated basal | 17 | – Isolated F1 | 29 | 9.1 (19.6) | |
Temporal | 91 12 | 28.4 (58) 3.8 | Corpus callosum | 52 | 16.2 (35.1) |
– Isolated polar | – Corpus | 20 | 6.2 (38.5) | ||
- Splenium | 11 | 3.4 (21.1) | |||
– Genu | 4 | 1.2 (7.6) | |||
– Corpus + splenium | 11 | 3.4 (21.1) | |||
Frontal + temporal | 28 | 8.8 | Frontal + corpus callosum | 11 | 3.4 (7.4) |
Parietal | 12 | 3.8 (7.7) | |||
Occipital | 9 | 2.8 (5.8) | |||
Cerebellar | 3 | 0.9 (1.9) | |||
Multiple | |||||
– Frontal pole/front base | 10 | 3.1 | |||
– Frontal pole/temporal pole | 7 | 2.2 | |||
– Frontal pole/front base/temporal pole | 7 | 2.2 | |||
– Front base/temporal pole | 14 | 4.4 |
*Absolute and relative, in relation to each specific injury type and location; F1: Gyrus frontalis superiorN.B.: Pathologies of the same kind in multiple locations were counted each time; for the locations of traumatic microbleeds, see also (4) rel.: relative; n: number