[Current and unresolved problems in the classification of cranio-cerebral injuries]

A careful study of the literature of the recent years and a special questionary presented in 1974 to 146 leading scientists and specialists of the country revealed important problems for discussion, such as contradictory approaches to the differentiation of the prevailing forms of lesions--commotion and contusion of the brain--by the degree of their severity, to distinguishing between brain contusion and compression. A prognosis of the tendencies and pathways to the creation of a common up-to-date classification of craniocerebral injuries is made.