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CT Image of Hemorrhagic Stroke

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Hemorrhagic stroke. CT image demonstrates bleeding in the right basal ganglia (large black arrow) and into the ventricles (small black arrows). Blood appears white on the CT scan. The white arrows illustrate midline shift. (Reproduced with permission from Chen MYM, Pope TL, Ott DJ. Basic Radiology. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Education; 2004.)


Read More about Hemorrhagic Stroke in Context: 

The Color Atlas and Synopsis of Family Medicine, 3e: Chapter 241. Cerebral Vascular Accident

Read More about Hemorrhagic Stroke:

Tintinalli’s Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide, 8e: Chapter 167. Stroke Syndromes

Adam’s and Victor’s Principles of Neurology, 11e: Chapter 33. Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases 

 Clinical Neurology, 10e: Chapter 13. Stroke



Go to the profile of Melanie Allison, DNP, MSN, RN, ACNP-BC

Melanie Allison, DNP, MSN, RN, ACNP-BC

Executive Editorial Specialist, McGraw-Hill Education

Melanie Allison is the Executive Manager of Education & Learning with McGraw Hill. She earned her Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree and Post-Master’s Certificate in Nursing Education from The Johns Hopkins University. She earned her Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) degree, specializing as an acute care nurse practitioner (ACNP), from Vanderbilt University. Melanie has more than 20 years of experience as a registered nurse and nurse practitioner in adult cardiology and advanced lipid management. She is a part-time faculty member at a top school of nursing where she has taught for more than 15 years.

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