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PHILIP SHAPIRO, M.D.; HARRY JACKSON, M.D.

Arch Surg. 1939;38(3):443-456.

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Dehydration methods in the treatment of injury to the head have refocused attention on the subject of the water content of the brain and the partition of fluids within the cranial cavity. The total volume of the cranial content is fixed by the rigid confines of the bony cranial walls (Monroe-Kellie Doctrine).¹ To maintain pressure equilibrium, a change in one component should be associated with a reciprocal change in some other.² The components involved are brain tissue, cerebral fluid and blood. The major factor is brain tissue, the chief subdivisions of which are solid matter (which is constant), intercellular water, intracellular water and parenchymatous hemorrhages. The cerebral fluid is divided into the subarachnoid and ventricular parts.³ The extraparenchymatous blood includes that within the vessels outside the brain as well as that extravasated as subarachnoid, subdural or extradural hemorrhage.⁴

It has long been taught that with trauma . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
CHICAGO

From the Cook County Hospital and from the Department of Physiology, the Northwestern University Medical School.

Footnotes
Read before The Chicago Surgical Society, Feb. 4, 1938.

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