[Features of the clinical picture, diagnosis, and treatment of cranio-cerebral injuries with occipital bone fractures].

Contusion of the brain at the site of the injury and by the contrecoup mechanism as well as vascular dysfunction in the vertebrobasilar basin may occur in craniocerebral injury with fracture of the occipital bone. In view of this, it is necessary to analyse the neurological manifestations of the brain injury carefully, carry out radiography of the occipital bone, and rule out the presence of hematoma at the site of the injury and one of a contrecoup mechanism. Procaine hydrochloride block of points of the vertebral arteries in indicated because of the dysfunction in the vertebrobasilar basin.