FATAL INTRACRANIAL VENOUS HÆMATOMA FOLLOWING VENTRICULAR DRAINAGE.

A FATAL complication occurring in the course of a routine procedure must needs be placed on record, and although the title of the present communication contains the gist of the story, the full records of the incidents supply a theoretical interest which equals their practical importance. The three case histories which follow are concerned with the development of clots, extradural in two, intradural and intracerebral in one case, and rapidly fatal in all three. The clots might have been dealt with successfully had they been recognized in time in the second and third instances. It is evident that the speed of production of the clot is of no little importance, and it may well be that once the possibility of the condition is better recognized, successfully treated cases may in the future be placed upon record.