The objective was to discover the nature of @entity75 in survivors of @entity542 who are left with moderate disability. Macroscopic and microscopic examination was carried out on the brains of 20 @entity1 who had died long after a @entity542 that had been treated in a neurosurgical unit. All had become independent but had various disabilities (moderate disability on the Glasgow outcome scale) Most @entity204 had been sudden, which had led to their referral from forensic pathologists. @entity32933 was a feature in 75%. An @entity932 had been evacuated in 75%, and in 11 of the 15 with @entity302 . @entity21 was found in six @entity1 , five of the mildest type (grade 1) and one of grade 2. No @entity1 had diffuse thalamic damage but one had a small focal @entity75 in the thalamus. No @entity1 had severe @entity75 , but three had moderate lesions which were bilateral in only one. No @entity1 had severe @entity131 . In conclusion, the dominant lesion was focal damage from an evacuated @entity932 . Severe diffuse damage was not found, with @entity21 only mild and thalamic damage in only one @entity1 .

The structural basis of moderate disability after XXXX .

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['patients', 'patient', 'persons'] @entity131 :: ('MESH:D001930', 'Disease') :: ['cortical contusions'] @entity932 :: ('MESH:D020300', 'Disease') :: ['intracranial haematoma'] @entity75 :: ('MESH:D001927', 'Disease') :: ['ischaemic brain damage', 'ischaemic lesion', 'brain damage'] @entity542 :: ('MESH:D006259', 'Disease') :: ['head injury'] @entity302 :: ('MESH:D004827', 'Disease') :: ['epilepsy'] @entity21 :: ('MESH:D001480', 'Disease') :: ['Diffuse axonal injury', 'diffuse axonal injury'] @entity204 :: ('MESH:D003643', 'Disease') :: ['deaths'] @entity32933 :: ('MESH:D004834', 'Disease') :: ['Post-traumatic epilepsy']
@entity75 :: (MESH:D001927,Disease) :: ['traumatic brain damage']
