[Decerebrate rigidity in craniocerebral injuries (clinico-statistical analysis]. / Detserebratsionnaia rigidnost' pri cherepno-mozgovoi travme (kliniko-statisticheskii analiz).

Decerebrate rigidity (DR) is encountered in 12% of cases with craniocerebral trauma. Statistically significant prevalence of DR in brain compression is shown. Examination of 131 patients with traumatic DR revealed the location of the lesion and the causes of brain compression which led to DR most frequently. The authors distinguish a group of clinico-laboratory signs which have diagnostic and prognostic importance in these patients.

[Margins for improving the results of treatment of cranio-cerebral injuries with brain compression]. / Nekotorye rezervy uluchsheniia rezul'tatov lecheniia cherepno-mozgovoi travmy so sdavleniem golovnogo mozga.

Clinical and statistical analysis of information gained from observation over 1 661 patients with craniocerebral injury treated at neurosurgical clinics in 1967-74 confirmed the proposition advanced at the Leningrad Polenov Neurosurgical Institute, namely that operation for correcting compression of the brain by an intracranial hematoma should be performed as early as possible after the injury and no later than 3 hours following hospitalization.