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"There is a blood-brain barrier --- so it's unlikely the brain got absorbed into the blood stream. Brain tissue doesn't just poof and disappear into thin air."

Acute contusions show hemorrhagic necrosis and brain swelling. Gradually, macrophages pick up necrotic brain tissue and blood. Eventually, the contusion evolves into a yellowish plaque.

http://www.akronchildrens.org/neuropathology/CHAPTER_FOUR.html

Now to google "macrophages".

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Acute contusions show hemorrhagic necrosis and brain swelling

I know about macrophages and how that might work with contusions and hemorrhagic necrosis ---- but that didn't seem to be Terri's diagnosis --- or did she have contusions from certain head injuries? I read somewhere it was insufficient circulation to the brain which damaged neurons.