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Washington University Experience | TRAUMA & FORENSIC | Contusions | 19A1 (Case 19) Contusion 1A
Case 19 History ---- This patient was a 63yo male with a long history of alcoholism who died of aspiration pneumonia. ---- At autopsy the unfixed brain weighed 1290g. There were remote contusions involving both orbital gyri, temporal lobes and right lateral convexity. ---- 19A1,2 The whole mount shows involvement of the crest of the gyrus with loss of gray matter and pallor involving the underlying white matter. (H&E)
