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ShareCerebral contusion is a form of traumatic brain injury, a bruise of the brain tissue.
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Like bruises in other tissues, cerebral contusion can be caused by multiple microhemorrhages, small blood vessel leaks into brain tissue.
Head CT scans of unconscious patients reveal that 20% have hemorrhagic contusion.
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