[Crystallographic study of cerebrospinal fluid in closed craniocerebral injuries in children]. / Kristallograficheskoe issledovanie spinnomozgovoi zhidkosti pri zakrytoi cherepno-mozgovoi travme u detei.

The authors examined 65 children with closed head trauma of varying severity and 68 children with other acute neurological diseases. A new method of the diagnosis and assessment of the severity of closed craniocerebral injury, namely, crystallographic examination of the patients' cerebrospinal fluid, was used in the study. The method helped to establish the clinical forms of closed head trauma and to determine its severity and the presence of complications.