Chronic Epidural Hematoma in an Elderly Patient: A Rare Encounter!!

Epidural hematoma (EDH) may sometimes result in life-threatening complications. Small-volume EDH can resolve spontaneously like other intracranial hematomas; however, rarely instead of disappearing, it may persist forming chronic EDH.[1] [2] An 85-year-old female patient was brought to our hospital with complaints of weakness in the right upper and lower limbs and delirium. There was a history of fall on a flat surface at her residence 24 days back, with no loss of consciousness or weakness at that time. A noncontrast computed tomography scan of the head revealed a chronic EDH ([Fig. 1]). She was taken up for an emergency burr hole and evacuation of the EDH. The intraoperative and postoperative course was uneventful, and the patient was discharged with recovering hemiparesis on the 4th postoperative day. We obtained consent from the patient's relative for this report.