[The clinical picture of acute epidural hematoma of traumatic origin]

Abstract

An analysis of 100 observations permitted the authors to conclude that the basis of the clinical picture of acute epidural hematoma was the syndrome of intercranial hypertension manifesting itself in growing disturbances of consciousness, headaches, vomiting, bradycardia. The appearance of local neurological symptoms gives a possibility for a physician to orientate quickly in the pathological process localization. "A lucid period" and the initial syndrome of the acute brain dislocation often revealed in the manifestation of mydriase are typical of the clinical picture of epidural hematoma.