[Treatment of penetrating craniocerebral injuries from the Vukovar conflict, 1991-1992. Analysis of a series]. / Lecenje penetrantnih kraniocerebralnih povreda s Vukovarskog ratista, 1991-1992. Analiza serije.

Throughout the course of Vukovar conflict from July, 1991, to May, 1992, there were 37 patients with war craniocerebral injuries evacuated to our Clinic. 29 patients suffered penetrating missile craniocerebral injuries, in 14 (48%) there were fragment wounds and in 15 (52%) gunshot wounds. The series was analyzed according to wounding agents, sites of head penetration, CT scan findings, neurological findings, operative and postoperative complications, and mortality. We have found significant difference in mortality between wounded who sustained fragment wounds (14%) and those with gunshot wounds (27%). Further we emphasize the necessity of CT scanning, concerning a high haematoma incidence of 27 percent. Presence of retained in-driven bone or metal fragments in our series had no influence on development of either seizure disorder or an infectious complication. This supports a thesis of a limited brain debridement as a correct approach in the treatment of penetrating missile injuries.

[Histochemical reaction to NPK fertilizer in the fascicular and reticular zones of the adrenal cortex]. / Histohemijski odgovor snopovne i mrezaste zone kore nadbubrega nakon delovanja NPK-gnojiva.

Male, white rats were kept for 30 days in an NPK fertilizer factory. The animals were then sacrificed and the samples of the fascicular and reticular zone of the adrenal gland were analyzed for fat substances. In the fascicular zone, as affected by NPK, the quantity of neutral lipids and triglycerides was decreased, whereas phospholipids were augmented. At the level of reticular zone the lowest rise in the quantity of neutral lipids was found, whereas the amount of the other two sorts of fat substances was conspicuously elevated. Nucleic acids change their presence in that pironynophilia disappeared; in the cells of both zones, the full discharge of RNA took place. Judging by the results obtained, the cells of both fascicular and reticular zone are in the phase of an intensified secretion.

[Histochemical features of the adrenal glomerulor zone 30 days after exposure to NPK fertilizer]. / Histohemijska svojstva klupcaste zone nadbubrega trideset dana nakon delovanja NPK-dubriva.

Sexually mature, male, Wistar rats lived for 30 days in a workshop of an NPK artificial fertilizer factory and were subjected to the effects of different chemical matters used in the synthesis of the fertilizer. After that time period, the experimental animals were sacrificed on the same day with the control ones, in the morning hours. The histochemical characteristics of the adrenal glomerular zone were studied. The results obtained show an increased content of the following lipid substances in the cells of the glomerular zone of the experimental animals: neutral lipids, triglycerides and phospholipids. The content of nucleic acids was also changed. The quality of fat substances was altered in the experimental rats. The total appearance of the glomerular zone gives the impression of an intensified activity.

[Fatty material in the adrenal cortex 2 months after cessation of contamination]. / Masne materije u kori nadbubrega dva meseca nakon prestanka kontaminacije.

The presence of lipid substances in the rat adrenal cortex was analysed two months after ending a one-month exposure to detergents. An increased quantity of neutral lipids was found throughout the adrenal cortex. An augmented triglyceride content was manifested to a higher degree in adrenocorticocytes. The largest quantity of phospholipids was observed in the adrenal cortex. The changes in the quantity and quality of lipid substances were described, which all testified to a stimulated activity of adrenal gland.