Hemorrhage

Hemorrhage

Hemorrhage is the presence of blood outside of a vessel, and may have a number of different causes. Some of the most common causes of hemorrhage in the brain are neoplasia and trauma. When hemorrhage is present in the brain, it is defined by it's location and age:

Location Terms:

Extra axial (outside the brain)

Epidural

Subdural

Subarachnoid

Intraventricular

Intra axial (inside the brain tissue)

May be inside or resulting from a tumor

May evolve from an ischemic infarct

Hematoma Progression on T1, T2, and T2*: