clinical features
Last reviewed 01/2018
Depression of consciousness is common with cerebral herniation and results from pressure against the midbrain reticular formation.
The two sites where the brain is commonly damaged by herniation are:
- the diencephalon and medial temporal lobe as brain herniates through the tentorium cerebelli
- the cerebellar tonsils and medulla as they herniate through the foramen magnum
There may be an ordered sequence of physical signs as cerebral herniation progresses.