Hernia through the Incisura of the Tentorium Cerebelli in Connection with Craniocerebral Trauma

Abstract

THE late Clovis Vincent and his co-workers in 1930¹ and again in 1936² called attention to the dangers inherent in the herniation of a part of one temporal lobe through the incisura of the tentorium cerebelli. Since then LeBeau,³ LeBeau and Houdart,⁴ Guiot and Janny,⁵ Jefferson,⁶ Zwan,⁷ Schwarz and Rosner,⁸ Evans and Scheinker,⁹ Scheinker,¹⁰ Freedman¹¹ and Reid and Cone¹² have written on this matter. Zwan,⁷ Evans and Scheinker,¹⁰ Freedman¹¹ and Reid and Cone¹² however, are the chief authors that we have come across who have considered such herniation in its relation to trauma. Zwan reports its occurrence in connection with . . .