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Diffuse Axonal Injury DAI

A shearing injury of large nerve fibers (axons covered with myelin) in many areas of the brain, It appears to be one of the two primary lesions of brain injury, the other being stretching or shearing of blood vessels from the same forces producing hemorrhage.



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