[Late surgical results in severe craniocerebral trauma with foci of brain crushing].

The long-term results of treatment in 130 patients with foci of crushing in the cerebral hemispheres were studied in follow-up periods of 12 months to 12 years. It was established that compensation of the disturbed functions of the central nervous system and the extent of social-occupational adaptation are dependent on the time and volume of the operative intervention, the severity of brain damage, the patients' age, the type and degree of manifestation of the hypertensive-dislocation syndrome, and the application of a complex of intensive therapy measures. A higher level of social-occupational adaptation is achieved when the focus of brain destruction is removed within the bounds of the destruction zone and before the development of the dislocation syndrome.