The Influence of Computerized Tomography on Treatment of Spontaneous Intracerebral Hematoma

The conservative and operative treatment of patients with spontaneous intracerebral hematoma has always caused problems to any neurosurgeon. The results of operative treatment vary considerably — as can be noted from a survey of the last thirty years’ literature, which is mainly due to the difference in patients and to the non-uniformity of indications for operation (Tables 1, 2). In this survey it has been distinguished as far as possible between typical hypertensive hematoma involving the basal ganglia and the atypical hematoma, situated in the white matter or the lobes.