The unified interdisciplinary classification of closed cranio-cerebral trauma
Konovalov, A.N.; Samotokin, B.A.; Vasin, N.I.; Likhterman, L.B.; Pedachenko, G.A.
Vestnik Khirurgii Imeni I. I. Grekova 140(2): 55-60
1988
ISSN/ISBN: 0042-4625 PMID: 3388714 Document Number: 324750
The article gives an account of the classification of cranio-cerebral traumas recommended by the IIIrd All-Union Congress of Neurosurgeons. Main clinical forms of cranio-cerebral traumas are described: concussion of the brain, contusion of the brain of light, mild and critical degree, compression of the brain against the background of its contusion and without it. A uniform gradation of disturbed consciousness and criteria for the assessment of the patient's state are presented.