Objective To investigate the effect of Glasgow Coma Scale(GCS) on the choice oftreatment strategy in acute hypertensive intracerebral hemorrhage. Methods Among 286 patients withhypertensive intracerebral hemorrhage,186 patients underwent operation. According to GCS scores onadmission,186 cases included 94 cases of GCS 5-8,71 cases of GCS 9-11 and 21 cases of GCS 12-14.These patients respectively underwent hematoma clearance and decompressive craniotomy(N = 63,22.03%),hematoma clearance(N = 21,7.34%),trepana...