Treatment of Cerebral Swelling

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Abstract
THE technics of neurologic surgery are meticulous, and the development of skill in this area tedious. Improvement in neurosurgical results has been achieved not only with perfection of operative technics, however, but also because of increased ability to protect the central nervous system during and after surgical procedures.One of the most difficult problems that has always faced the neurologic surgeon has been the control of cerebral swelling. It has proved to be a major cause of morbidity and mortality associated with a wide variety of lesions involving the nervous system: trauma, neoplasm, infarction, infection and toxic and metabolic processes. . . .