Table 2.
Injury Characteristics of Participants with Traumatic Brain Injury
| Subject | Sex | Age at injury | TSI | Injury mechanism | GCS | Day-of-injury CT results |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primary injury | Hemi | Location | ||||||
| 1 | F | 3 | 7 | MVA (pass) | 3 | SF | R | Temporal |
| 2 | M | 2 | 9 | MVA (ped) | 8 | SF | R | Temporal |
| L | Parietal | |||||||
| L | Basilar | |||||||
| 3 | M | 3 | 15 | BFT | 9 | CBH | R | Cerebellar |
| 4 | M | 5 | 8 | Fall | 5 | EDH | R | Frontal |
| R | Parietal | |||||||
| 5 | M | 4 | 8 | BFT | 10 | SDH | R | Parietal |
| 6 | F | 8 | 5 | RVA | 12 | CC | B | Occipital |
| 7 | M | 5 | 9 | Fall | 13 | PCH | L | Parietal |
| 8 | F | 4 | 14 | MVA (pass) | 3 | HC | R | Temporal |
| 9 | F | 4 | 10 | MVA (pass) | 11 | SAH | R | Lateral ventricle |
| M | Fourth ventricle | |||||||
| 10 | M | 2 | 9 | Fall | 13 | IVH | R | Choroid plexus |
| R | Lateral ventricle | |||||||
| 11 | M | 5 | 6 | RVA | 7 | SDH | L | Along posterior fossa near cisterna magna |
| 12 | M | 2 | 13 | Fall | 8 | SAH | L | Temporal |
| 13 | F | 4 | 13 | Fall | 8 | EDH | L | Occipital |
| 14 | M | 8 | 6 | MVA (pass) | 3 | DAI | R | Temporal |
| R | Basal ganglia | |||||||
| L | Frontal | |||||||
| 15 | M | 1 | 15 | MVA (ped) | 8 | Basilar SF | B | Occipital |
| 16 | M | 3 | 12 | Fall | 15 | IVH | B | Occipital horns |
| 17 | F | 2 | 9 | Fall | 8 | Basilar SF | L | Cranial fossa |
TSI, time-since-injury (years); GCS, Glasgow Coma Scale score (initial); Hemi, hemisphere; F, female; M, male; MVA, motor vehicle accident (pass, passenger, ped, pedestrian); BFT, blunt force trauma; RVA, recreational vehicle accident; SF, skull fracture; CBH, cerebellar hematoma; EDH, epidural hematoma; SDH, subdural hematoma; CC, cortical contusion; PCH, parenchymal hematoma; HC, hemorrhagic contusion; SAH, subarachnoid hemorrhage; IVH, intraventricular hemorrhage; DAI, diffuse axonal injury; R, right; L, left; B, bilateral; M, midline.