MRI Shows 'Brain Scars' In Military Personnel With Blast-Related Concussion (1/3) (IMAGE)

Radiological Society of North America

MRI Shows 'Brain Scars' In Military Personnel With Blast-Related Concussion (1/3)

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Susceptibility-weighted image shows extensive microhemorrhage (arrows) consistent with diffuse axonal injury -- a brain injury in which damage in the form of extensive lesions in white matter tracts occurs over a widespread area -- in a 25-year-old man with blast-related mild TBI.

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Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)

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