[Diagnostic value of auxiliary methods of study in severe cranio-cerebral injury with compression of the brain]

X-ray contrast and surgical neurodiagnostical methods permit to distinguish acute intracranial pressure in the early stages of the trauma. These methods were used in 129 cases where in 84 of them intracranial pressure was diagnosed and which permitted to accomplish urgent surgical operations. Pneumoencephalography, intracarotid angiography, an imposement of milling apertures are considered by the authors as possible methods to be used in a neurosurgical ward of a general hospital, taking into consideration its high diagnostical informativeness with a strict registration of the degree of severity and the clinical form of brain concussion.