Focal traumatic brain stem injury is a rare type of head injury resulting from assault: a forensic neuropathological study.

Introduction: Brainstem haemorrhage is common in cases of head injury when it is associated with space-occupying lesion and increases in the intracranial pressure (duret haemorrhage), in cases of diffuse axonal injury (in dorso-lateral quadrant) and diffuses vascular injury (in the periventricular tissue). However focal traumatic brainstem injury is rare.

Material And Method: We identified 12 cases of focal traumatic brainstem injury from review of 319 case of head injury.