Author(s)

Drissa Kanikomo¹, Moussa Diallo^1*, André Tokpa², Youssouf Sogoba¹, Izoudine Blaise Koumaré¹, Mamadou Salia Diarra³, Boubacar Sogoba¹, Oumar Diallo⁴, Mahamadou Dama⁴, Oumar Coulibaly⁴, Mamady Coulibaly¹, Abdoulaye Kanikomo¹

¹Department of Neurosurgery, Teaching Hospital Gabriel Toure, Bamako, Mali.
²Department of Neurosurgery, Teaching Hospital of Bouake, Bouake, Cote d’Ivoire.
³Department of Neurosurgery, Luxembourg Hospital of Bamako, Bamako, Mali.
⁴Department of Neurosurgery, Mali Hospital, Bamako, Mali.

Introduction: Extradural hematoma is a common pathology in our department. The natural history of small-volume hematoma is usually towards resorption. In rare cases, the hematoma calcifies and compresses the brain. We report an extradural hematoma in a 15-year-old boy who had a road traffic accident on February 2011. The brain CT-scan performed the following day revealed a small right frontal extradural hematoma. During hospitalization, he had a fever of 40 degrees with convulsions and the blood culture isolated the coagulase-negative staphylococci and Group D streptococci. When his conscience was restored, hemiparesis and dysarthria were observed. The control brain CT-scan performed 2 weeks after the trauma showed early resorption of the hematoma. Two months after the trauma, the brain CT-scan showed calcification of the hematoma. He underwent surgery in April 2011 to remove the calcification. The sequels were hemiparesis and posttraumatic epilepsy. Conclusion: The evolution of a small non-operated extradural hematoma can be done towards calcification thus requiring surgery.

Extradural Hematoma, Calcification

Kanikomo, D. , Diallo, M. , Tokpa, A. , Sogoba, Y. , Koumaré, I. , Diarra, M. , Sogoba, B. , Diallo, O. , Dama, M. , Coulibaly, O. , Coulibaly, M. and Kanikomo, A. (2023) Intracranial Calcified Extradural Hematoma about a Case. Open Journal of Modern Neurosurgery, 13, 69-73. doi: 10.4236/ojmn.2023.132009.