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In a subanalysis of a study of approximately 16,000 children <18 years of age who presented to 25 emergency departments with blunt head trauma and underwent head computed tomography (CT), investigators compared clinical presentations and outcomes between those with isolated and those with nonisolated intraventricular hemorrhage. Nonisolated intraventricular hemorrhage was defined as an intraventricular hemorrhage associated with at least one of the following features: intracranial hemorrhage or contusion, cerebral edema, traumatic infarction, diffuse axonal injury, shearing injury, sigmoid sinus thrombosis, midline shift or signs of brain herniation, skull diastasis, pneumocephalus, or depressed skull fracture.
Of 1156 children (7.3%) with i…