[Trauma to the cranial nerve roots in the pathogenesis of brain stem lesions in severe craniocerebral injury].

A clinico-morphological analysis of results of 65 autopsies has shown that traumatization of cranial nerve roots at the moment of trauma is one of pathogenetical mechanisms of truncal lesions. A group of primary progressing truncal lesions was established which included 81.1% of patients who died at the hospital.