Morphological analysis of anatomical location of diffuse axonal injury (DAI) changes on MR in the children and adults

We analyze a group 123 patients (64children and 59 adults) were examined with head CT and MRI (1,5T). The sequences used were:T2 FSE, FLAIR,T2GRE and T1SE. Corpus callosum(CC) was involved in 70%. Involvement decreased from splenium(SCC)-55% to truncus (TCC)-23% and genu (GCC) – 23%. Punctate subcortical bleeding(SB) was present in 63%, bleeding in basal ganglia in 30% and in pons cerebri in 28%. The children (ð age11,9) have lesion in CC in 78% compared to the 66% in adults (ðage40). Even higher differences were observed in SCC – 71% and 46%. Pons cerebri was involved in 38% of children, in 24% of adults. By co…