[Early complications following intracranial surgery]

The authors discuss early non-inflammatory postoperative complications developing in the first week after operations. The reported material comprised 97 patients from among 1 815 cases treated surgically in the years 1971--1973 at the Departments of Neurosurgery and Neurotraumatology, Medical Academy in Cracow. The most frequent causes of reoperations were brain oedema, epidural haematoma and haematoma in the empty space left after evacuation of lesion. In the group of reoperated patients the percent of fatal cases increased to 56,7%.