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PECARN Definition of TBI on Head CT Imaging
| Intracranial hemorrhage or contusion |
| Cerebral edema |
| Traumatic infarction |
| Diffuse axonal injury |
| Shearing injury |
| Sigmoid sinus thrombosis |
| Midline shift of intracranial contents or signs of brain herniation |
| Diastasis of the skull |
| Pneumocephalus |
| Skull fracture depressed by at least the width of the table of the skull |
