[CT-stereotaxic punctures, aspiration and drainage of deep space-occupying processes in the brain (cystic tumors, hematomas and abscesses)].

The article analyses the clinical material concerning 68 patients with various deeply-seated space-occupying processes of the brain (cystic tumors, multiple abscesses, intracerebral hematomas) which were subjected to stereotaxic aspiration on the basis of the findings of computed tomography (CT-stereotaxic punctures). A significant and immediate effect with rapid regression of local and general cerebral symptoms was recorded in 38 patients with cystic intracerebral tumors and craniopharyngiomas. All the patients tolerated the operation well and in none of them were complications encountered. The precision, reliability and safety of CT-stereotaxic punctures--is the basis for such operations as intra-tissue beta-therapy of craniopharyngiomas with radiocolloids, evacuation of intracerebral hematomas, and drainage of multiple brain abscesses. Being an obvious palliative surgical measure, CT-stereotaxic aspiration of deeply-seated cystic tumors is a method of choice in cases in which a direct operation is contraindicated and in patients who are in a grave condition.