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Analysis of the clinical symptomatology was carried out in 162 patients with verified intracranial hematomas that accounted for 6.6% of all the craniocerebral injuries. Lethal outcomes were recorded in 38.9% of the cases. Hematomas that had not been diagnosed during life comprised 9.2%. Subdural hematomas were found in 54.9% of the patients, epidural in 28.4%, multiple in 13.6% and intracerebral in 3.1%. In more than 2/3 of the observations, intracranial hemorrhages were combined with an injury to the cranial bones. Acute hematomas were diagnosed in 102, subacute in 33 and chronic in 27 victims. Despite the polymorphism of the neurological data, each type of hematomas was marked by the most incident symptoms and by some aspects of the progress. Outcome of traumatic intracranial hemorrhages depended not only on the trauma severity but also on the time of admission to the hospital.

The author describes one-stage investigation of the epidural and preneural spaces at the lumbar level using gas and a needle for lumbar puncture with a longitudinal side hole at the working end with subsequent roentgenography (pneumospondylography). Altogether 140 patients with lumbar vertebral osteochondrosis with neurological disorders were examined. Pneumospondylography gives 3 levels of contrast and ensures information on the sizes of the epidural and arachnoidal spaces, function of the invertebral holes and paravertebral tissues. The phenomenon of differentiation of the dural sac wall helps to diagnose in more detail the posterior protrusions of the intervertebral disks with concomitant epiduritis, pachymeningitis, arachnoiditis by the length and diameter of the vertebral canal.