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. 2020 May 5;134(6):2187–2193. doi: 10.1007/s00414-020-02308-x

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

Hemophagocytosis by microglial cells in traumatic brain injury cases with different survival times. Already in cases with minute trauma survival, red blood cells are phagocytosed by microglia/macrophages in the contusion zones. This phenomenon seemingly appeared more frequently with increasing survival time and expansion of bleeding but stayed continuously inside the damaged brain area