Diffuse Axonal Injury

This is the brain of a workman who survived a fall but was in profound coma for three weeks prior to dying of pneumonia.

Notice the petechiae on the corpus callosum, and the bruising in the pontine tegmentum, deep in the midbrain, where the forces come together.

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