ABSTRACT
The level of artificial electromagnetic field (EMF) has steadily increased with the development of human civilization. The developing chicken embryo has been considered a good model to study the effects of EMF on living organisms. The aim of the study was to determine the effect of a 1800 MHz electromagnetic field during embryogenesis on the frequency of chick embryo malformations, morphometric parameters of the heart and liver and concentration of corticosterone in blood plasma, lipid and glycogen content in the liver of newly hatched chicks. A 1800 MHz EMF was found to shorten the duration of embryogenesis (earlier pipping and hatching of chicks) while having no effect on the quantity and quality of chicks and on increasing the incidence of embryo malformations. Exposure of chick embryos to EMF caused decreases in relative heart weight and right ventricle wall thickness. The pipping and hatching of chicks can be accelerated by stressful impact of EMF, which is confirmed by a significant increase in plasma corticosterone concentrations and decrease in fat and glycogen in the liver of chicks exposed during embryogenesis on the electromagnetic field with a frequency of 1800 MHz.
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Chick Embryo/radiation effects , Electromagnetic Fields/adverse effects , AnimalsABSTRACT
The authors report a rare case of myelosclerosis diagnosed during hospital stay in internal Department on account of hepatosplenomegaly and anaemia. The case of patient described by authors was diagnosed on the ground of examination and executed additional investigations: morphology, peripheral blood picture, chest radiography, scintiscan of skeleton.
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Bone Density/physiology , Primary Myelofibrosis/diagnosis , Primary Myelofibrosis/physiopathology , Aged , Humans , Male , Radiography, ThoracicABSTRACT
We report a case of a 44 year old man, who was admitted to our hospital because of right eyeball and right eye-socket due to a piece of diamond circular saw. Right eyeball was sutured. CT--examination showed a metallic foreign body in the right frontal lobe of brain. Metallic foreign body, which damaged the right eyeball, caused upper restriction of right eye-socket ceiling and stuck in a frontal lobe of the brain was removed.
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Eye Injuries/complications , Foreign Bodies/diagnostic imaging , Foreign Bodies/etiology , Frontal Lobe/surgery , Accidents, Home , Adult , Foreign Bodies/surgery , Frontal Lobe/diagnostic imaging , Humans , Male , Time Factors , Tomography, X-Ray Computed , Treatment OutcomeABSTRACT
A rare case of dissecting aneurysm of the aortic arch with left haemothorax was presented. The authors describe modern methods of visualising diagnostics used in case of suspected dissecting aortic aneurysm.
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Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic/diagnosis , Aortic Dissection/diagnosis , Hemothorax/etiology , Aged , Aortic Dissection/complications , Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic/complications , Humans , MaleABSTRACT
The authors describe a patient with an extensive inflammation of the neck soft tissues as a complication of the peritonsillar abscess. Follow-up computed tomography revealed gasi-form follicles in the inflammed neck soft tissues, suggesting gas gangrene. We report disseminate ways of the inflammation process on the financial tonsil, reasons of the gangrene also the infections of soft tissues caused by anaerobic bacteries--Clostridium. CT--examination in inflammatory tumors of the neck is valuable, permits to exclude expansion process, but it cannot give unequivocal answer to differentiate gas gangrene and phlegmon.
