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Four patients with spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage were observed to have evidence of active bleeding when CT was performed within 6 hours of onset. All four patients had elevated blood pressure on admission and long-standing, untreated essential hypertension. Three hemorrhages were thalamic, and one was in the basal ganglia.
Kelley et al. (Sun,) studied this question.