Patients with moderate head injury: a prospective multicenter study of 315 patients.

Objective: To analyze the risk factors of worst outcome associated with moderate head injury.

Methods: Data on patients with moderate head injury were collected prospectively in 11 Italian neurosurgical units over a period of 18 months. Patients older than 18 years with blunt head injury and at least one Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score between 9 and 13 were enrolled.

Traumatic intracerebellar hemorrhage: clinicoradiological analysis of 81 patients.

Objective: We report 81 patients with a traumatic intracerebellar hemorrhagic contusion or hematoma managed between 1996 and 1998 at 13 Italian neurosurgical centers.

Methods: Each center provided data about patients' clinicoradiological findings, management, and outcomes, which were retrospectively reviewed.

Results: A poor result occurred in 36 patients (44.