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Axial brain CT scan images on admission showing expanded ventricles and blood inundation.
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Scale (GCS) score was 3; bilateral pupils dilated to 5 mm with no response to light and head rigidity; low heart rate, high blood pressure and a few moist rales over both sides of lung base were found. Subsequent computed tomographic (CT) scan detected high intensity lesion in all the expanded ventricles, and the brain stem had been compressed (Fig. 1).
Axial brain CT scan images 6 h after operation showing total removal of intraventricular hematoma and the position of EVD catheters.
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The patient received another CT scan 6 h after operation, which showed that the hematoma had been totally removed and the size of third and fourth ventricles returned to normal (Fig. 2).