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The study included 12 operated patients with medullocervical gliomas. Two of them had hemangioblastomas, 6-ependymomas, 4-astrocytomas with different degree of dedifferentiation. The gross total tumor removals were achieved in 4 patients with ependymomas and patient with hemangioblastomas. Two patients with ependymomas and one with hemangioblastoma had their tumors removed subtotally. All astrocytomas were partially excised. The neurological long tract signs were alleviated almost in all ependymoma and hemangioblastoma patients after surgery. Complication rate was the highest in the astrocytoma group. The authors discussed indications and contraindications for surgery depending on the tumor type.

Brain contusion in children becomes fatal only when the cerebrocranial trauma is very serious and coarse diffuse lesions occur in the whole brain. Foci of intracerebral hemorrhages are relatively rare in such cases. A special form of affection--diffuse involvement of the brain is often encountered in children and young persons. In patients of the older age groups a fatal outcome may occur not only in a severe but also in a relatively mild trauma; it is due to the trauma itself and also to secondary pathological reactions on the part of the cardiovascular and other systems of the organism. The contusion foci in elderly and old-aged individuals are characterized as a rule by extensive hemorrhages. The younger the patient, the more is the tendency towards manifestation of the regularities characteristic of the child organism, and, in contrast, the older the patient and the more pronounced the signs of premature advanced age, the higher is the frequency of complications and fatal outcomes in relatively mild cerebrocranial trauma.

A detailed study of 44 patients with the neuro-vascular compression syndrome of thoracic exit has established the diagnostic value of clinical and special methods of diagnosing the disease. The most frequent symptoms were pain in the anterior scalene muscle (ASM) during palpation (96%) and paresthesia in fingers (93%). Rheography, arteriography and phlebography of the upper extremities combined with the positional tests should be resorted to. In case of marked neurological symptoms the data on the nerve block of the ASM are informative. Surgical treatment was undertaken in 35 patients: resection of the I rib in 14 cases (in 4 resection combined with upper thoracic sympathectomy), resection of the ASM in 12, removal of the accessory cervical rib with scalenotomy in 5, decompressive vascular reconstructive operations in 10 patients with vascular complications. Good results were obtained in 32 patients. It is stressed that detailed examinations of patients with vaso-neurological symptoms in the upper extremity are important for timely diagnosis and surgery before the complications supervene.

The authors analyze 236 electrocardiograms in 1343 patients of young and middle age with mild head injuries. The Minnesota code was used in the analysis of the electrocardiograms. It was found that mild craniocerebral trauma causes diffuse changes in the cardiac muscle. The character and degree of these changes are not homogeneous. The dynamics of the number of coded signs and their ratios were used to evaluate the functional state of the vegetative nervous system.

The features of the clinical course and diagnosis of intracerebral hematomas are described from the analysis of 57 patients with post-traumatic intracerebral hematomas. It is shown that late formation of hematomas may occur. The results of surgical management of hematomas are analyzed. Wide trephination followed by radical removal of the hematoma is the optimum surgical procedure. It is noted that the results of treatment are determined by the rate of formation and volume of the hematoma and the patient's age.