Aspects of the thyroid gland vascularization in young organisms (a morphological and radioisotope-based study).

The thyroid gland vascularization has been studied on 58 pieces belonging to young organisms (human and animal) by means of both morphometric methods (macro- and microscopic) and injection of radioisotopes (86Rb). The statistical-mathematical study of the dimensional values characterizing the thyroid vascular branch at different levels assumed for study allowed to determine the thyroid central area as the best vascularized of the thyroid parenchyma. Estimating the specific activity and the absorption constant value of the 86Rb in the vascular wall and the glandular parenchyma, the radioisotope-based study attests the data obtained morphologically. By the simultaneous injection of 86Rb into strychnine, the pharmacodynamic study shows a more prominent reduction of the 86Rb absorption constant value in the distal area of the gland as compared to its central one and the blank batch.

The vascular terminal network device in the anterior stomach wall.

The microcirculatory bed of the anterior stomach wall has been studied in man, dog, rabbit, guinea pig and rat, starting from the fact that in the modern gastro-duodenal surgery the various sectors of this stomach part have a special importance. The stomach microvascular network has been rendered manifest by microcorrosion preparations and by intravascular injections with coloured tracers (China Ink-gelatin, silver nitrate, methylene blue). Examinations under biocular magnifying glass and microscope of the histological slides, as well as of the block-transparentized ones in tetraline, have facilitated the microvascular morphometry as well as the calculation of some hemodynamic indices of blood flow evaluation in a limited territory of the anterior stomach wall. The obtained data can be of use when evaluating the microcirculation of the stomach parietal territories in selective vagotomies, anastomoses, plasties, resections and other operations of the stomach.

The vascular morphometry of some brain stem parts.

With the view of following the vascular system of the cerebral trunk, there have been simultaneously injected coloured tracers combined with radio-opaque substances and radio-isotopes (32P, 22Ca) by intravital perfusion to 130 animals (dogs, rabbits and rats). The macro- and microscopical vasculature of the human brain stem was studied on 30 specimens of adults and children. The angioarchitecture of the diverse parts and sectors of the brain stem was studied as a whole in tetraline transparentised preparations and on histological section in comparison with the microradiographies and to incorporation of radioisotopes. A particular attention has been given to the irrigation of hypoglossal nuclei, the bulbar oliva, and the pontopeduncular region, all being zones with multiple sources of vascularization. The vascular morphometry has been macro- and microscopically performed, the data being worked out mathematically-statistically by computing some hemodynamical indices in order to estimate the circulation in different zones of the brain stem.