Staged treatment of a patient with malignant ischemic cerebral infarction.

The authors discuss surgical decompression of the brain in patients with malignant ischemic cerebral infarcts. Successful staged treatment of a middle-aged patient with malignant ischemic stroke in the middle cerebral artery basin is presented.

The use of transcallosal ventriculostomy to treat complicated forms of aneurismal intracranial hemorrhages.

The present paper reports two cases of successful use of the anterior interhemispheric transcallosal approach during ultra-early surgery in patients in decompensated condition with severe intraventricular hemorrhage caused by rupture of cerebral aneurysms.