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Our retrospective study included 104 patients (28 female and 76 male) with intracerebral bleeding, treated between 1978 and 1988 in the Neurosurgical Clinic of the Medical University in Hannover. The average age was 43 years. 53 patients presented with traumatic intracerebral bleedings, and 51 with spontaneous hematomas. 31 patients with spontaneous hematomas were operated: among these a good or satisfactory result was obtained in 19 patients, and 12 died. Of the 20 non-operated patients, a good or satisfactory result was achieved in 10. 31 patients were operated in the group with traumatic hematoma, of these 22 had a good or satisfactory outcome and 9 patients died or had an unsatisfactory result. Of the 22 non-operated patients, 13 died and 9 achieved a good or satisfactory result. In the stratified Chit-Test the effects of the operation were not found to be significant, with 0.1 < p < 0.25 for spontaneous, and 0.25 < p < 0.05 for the traumatic hematomas. There is a trend in favor of the operation in certain cases.
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Zumkeller, M., Höllerhage, HG., Pröschl, M. et al. The results of surgery for intracerebral hematomas. Neurosurg. Rev. 15, 33–36 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02352065
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02352065