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Temporal Tip Contusion

A 45 year-old man was brought to the hospital confused and with a receptive aphasia following a motor vehicle accident.

Show the Left Temporal Tip Contusion     Show the Surrounding Edema

Temporal Pole Contusion. Axial CT scans without contrast. Note the area of traumatic contusion, which consists of hemorrhage and surrounding edema, in the left anterior temporal lobe. Along with the frontal poles, the temporal lobe tip is a common location for cerebral contusions following head injury, wherein the brain continues to move forward, striking the inner skull, after the head has stopped moving.

Revised 11/15/06.
Copyrighted 2006. David C Preston