THERAPY
It is point of dicussion for more than 100 years whether ICH should be evacuated surgically. Surgeons noticed that the prognosis for patients still remained poor, independently whether they were surgically treated or not. Up to 30% of all patients suffering from ICH die within 30 days after stroke, and many patients surviving ICH remain in a severe affected vegetative state. Thus the outcome of a large part of patients is still unsatisfactory. Multiple attempts have failed to find objective criteria to decide, whether surgery is useful or not in a single case, although the surgical techniques have been improved during the recent years.