Fig. 17.

Sixty-six-year-old man. Axial CT with leftsided subdural hematoma and diffuse brain swelling without splenial hypodensity on day of trauma (a); 3 days later, infarction is seen in the left side of the splenium and in the left occipital lobe (b). At follow-up, 7 years later, the patient has no residual cognitive disturbance. Axial T2 (c) and sagittal 3D FLAIR (d) show extreme tissue loss in the same regions