[Intraoperative thermoencephalometry in traumatic compression of the brain]

The diagnostic possibilities of intraoperative comparative contact thermoencephalometry were studied in 54 patients with various forms of traumatic brain compression. Various temperature characteristics of the dura mater and cerebral cortex which depended on the rate of the clinical course of intracranial hematomas, as well as in foci of contusion and crushing of the brain, were detected. Consequently, this method can be employed during operation for determining the exact character and extent of the comprising substrate in craniocerebral trauma.