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	Brain injury victims can seem OK, symptoms delayed

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/bd7c14b0-a746-4021-b15c-768fe99c2d1a/2C7DD35B-6F53-4078-A327-C3636AFF459B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090319/ap_en_ce/richardson_injury" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090319/ap_en_ce/richardson_injury" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090319/ap_en_ce/richardson_injury"><H1>Brain injury victims can seem OK, symptoms delayed</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090319/ap_en_ce/richardson_injury"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.yahoo.com/img/B48364FA-F6B5-4739-8CFF-B92B5F7C1112" alt="AP" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090319/ap_en_ce/richardson_injury"><ABBR class="recenttimedate" title="2009-03-19T15:23:20-0700">1 hr 12 mins ago</ABBR></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090319/ap_en_ce/richardson_injury"><CITE class="vcard">
        By The Associated Press        <SPAN class="fn org">The Associated Press</SPAN>
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                <IMG width="100" height="233" alt="Graphic shows how an epidural hematoma forms between the brain and the" src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090319/capt.429ffb6ab49d48cea962b3724e269f35.epidural_hematoma_gfx935.jpg?x=100&y=233&xc=1&yc=1&wc=176&hc=410&q=85&sig=BX57WUi5mV1bhs01U.ROPw--" />
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                    </LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090319/ap_en_ce/richardson_injury"><P>Doctors say sometimes patients with <SPAN id="lw_1237501429_2" class="yshortcuts">brain injuries</SPAN> have what's called a "lucid interval" where they act fine for an hour or more as the brain slowly, silently swells or bleeds. Later, back at her hotel, Richardson fell ill, complained of a headache, and was taken to a hospital. She died Wednesday in New York.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090319/ap_en_ce/richardson_injury"><P>An autopsy Thursday showed that the 45-year-old actress hit her head, which caused bleeding between the skull and the brain's covering, resulting in what's called an epidural hematoma. It's a type of injury often caused by a <SPAN id="lw_1237501429_3" class="yshortcuts">skull fracture</SPAN>.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2C7DD35B-6F53-4078-A327-C3636AFF459B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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