[A laboratory multipositional skull base holder].

Authors present an original multipositional holder for skull base cadaveric specimens, either formalin or fresh. It is constructed to be fixated for standard neurosurgical operating table, devoted for laboratory micro neurosurgical dissection and suitable for simulation operation on patient. The holder is made of solid stainless steel, practical and easy for cleaning. The device permits good tree point's fixation, extensive angular mobility of the primary and secondary joints, that the skull base specimen can be placed and supported in any desired position. It fulfills demands for fixation from external skull base surface with thin needles ensuring full surgical dissection field without obstacles or invisible angles.

[Multidisciplinary investigations in dead persons suspicious of AIDS]. / Multidisciplinarna istrazivanja kod osoba umrilih pod sumnjom na ejds (AIDS).

The background of AIDS is the deregulation of the cellular immune system caused by HIV infection. AIDS has proved to be entirely different from any previous known diseases. It affects practically all the tissues and organs of the human body. Clinical and autopsy diagnoses are confronted with an incomparable diversity of inflammatory, vascular, degenerative and neoplastic changes. Thanks to clinical and pathological researshes, the medical knowledge of AIDS has rapidly progressed. The Institute of Forensic Medicine is, for now, the unique medical institution organized to perform obligatory autopsies of drug-addicts, to detect the other cases suspect of HIV infection or some AIDS indicative diseases. The aim of this study is to establish the basis for multidisciplinary investigations of AIDS and to solve very important problems such as: a) to accept the diagnostic criteria for correct diagnosis of AIDS, with or without laboratory evidence of HIV infection; b) to recognize the early stadium of clinico-pathological entities associated with HIV infection; c) to improve the "indicator" of AIDS disease for daily medical practice.

[Suicide among narcotic addicts]. / Samoubistvo narkomana.

The majority of deaths occurring from acute or chronic narcotism declined as accidental are often termed as "overdose". But in some cases, the evidence found at the scene or the other data indicate intent of suicide. This report presents an analysis of suicide victims classified as drug or narcotic abusers. The cause and manner of death, the postmortem toxicologic and histopathologic findings are discussed.

[Filicide]. / Filicidium.

Filicide is the term denoting murder of a child by one of his (her) parents. The authors analysed the autopsic material of the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Belgrade related to a sixty-year period (1920-1980) and found 26 cases of filicide. On the basis of this finding, the authors concluded that filicide was not very frequent in this area. The motives of filicide were as follows: conflict between parents, child's disease or anomaly, illegitimate child, social and economic problems, parents' mental disorders. The murderer of a child was mother in 15 cases and father in 11 cases. Thus, mother was more frequently murderer than the father (15:11). However, these data are not in accordance with data from literature where mother is emphasized as "almost the only" murderer of her child.