[Computerized tomography and electroencephalography findings in post-traumatic brain edema]

The reduction in size of the ventricular areas in the computer tomogram as a morphological substrate of a generalised cerebral edema in 43 patients correlated better with the vigilance than with the EEG findings. This fact as well as the representation possibility of additional intracranial haemorrhages favour the computer tomography in the posttraumatic acute phase as compared to the electroencephalography, which should be employed in the subacute phase.