ABSTRACT
Objective To summarize the experience and lesson of surgical treatment of acute traumatic brain injury.Methods A total of 516 cases with acute traumatic brain injury treated surgi- cally from January 2001 to December 2004 in our hospital were analyzed retrospectively.Of all,there were 56 cases with simple comminuted depressed fractures,138 with brain contusion and laceration and/ or intracerebral hematoma,122 with epidural hematoma,126 with suhdural hematoma,48 with diffuse brain swelling,18 with open brain injuries and eight with other kind of injury,all of whom were treated with standard large eraniectomy under general anaesthesia.The treatment results were evaluated by Glas- cow Outcome Scale(GOS).Results Of all,standard large craniectomy was performed in 194 cases, of which 304 cases(58.9%)were with good recovery,66(12.8%)with moderate deficit,72(13.9%) with severe deficit,12(2.3%)under persistent vegetative status and 62(12.0%)died 3-6 months after surgery.Conclusions More attention should be paid to surgery for traumatic brain injury.Individual surgical treatment should be performed under surgical principles.