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Sung Ho Jang, MD; Seong Ho Kim, MD, PhD; Oh Lyong Kim, MD, PhD

Arch Neurol. 2009;66(11):1424-1425.

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Diffuse axonal injury (DAI) is characterized by widespread axonal damage due to shearing forces by acceleration, deceleration, or rotation of the brain.¹Diffuse axonal injury is the most frequent cause of poor clinical outcomes in patients with traumatic brain injury.¹However, conventional brain magnetic resonance imaging is not sufficiently sensitive to diagnose DAI, as most DAI lesions are microscopic.²Recent advancements in diffusion tensor tractography (DTT) have allowed the fornix to be visualized 3-dimensionally.^3-5 Wang et al⁵ demonstrated that the fornix bodies of patients with DAI were injured using the data obtained from DTT. In the current study, we describe a patient with DAI who showed a fornix injury on DTT.

A 40-year-old, right-handed man who was in a traffic crash underwent conservative management for DAI at the department of neurosurgery in a university hospital. The . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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