[The principles and late results of the surgical treatment of chronic subdural hematoma in nursing infants].

Principles of surgical treatment of 68 infants with chronic subdural hematoma are substantiated. Late follow-up results analysis has shown that the application of all of the modern neurosurgical diagnostic methods permits to choose correctly the method of treatment and to prognosticate its result. Result of treatment was not influenced substantially by the hematoma evacuation procedure performance, in 37 patients good result occurred.

[Transtentorial ventriculocisternostomy].

Transtentorial ventriculocisternostomy was performed on 21 patients. It led to the correction of the hypertensive-occlusive phenomena in all of them. No accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid in the soft tissues along the shunt-tubes, liquorrhea or purulent complications were encountered in the postoperative period.