[Crystallization of cerebrospinal fluid in cases of death from ischemic heart disease and ethanol poisoning]. / Kristallizatsiia spinno-mozgovoi zhidkosti v sluchaiakh smerti ot ishemicheskoi bolezni serdtsa i otravleniia étilovym alkogolem.

Crystallographic analysis of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) was carried out in 18 cases of death from coronary disease and 19 cases of death from ethanol poisoning. The crystallograms were evaluated visually and by the stereoscopic picture. Specific features of the CSF crystal colonies growth in subjects dead from the above conditions are determined.

[Infrared spectroscopy of the dry residue of liquor crystallograms in various diseases]. / Infrakrasnaia spektroskopiia sukhogo ostatka kristallogramm likvora pri razlichnykh patologicheskikh sostoianiiakh.

The article presents the results of an examination of the dry residue of liquor crystallograms (DRLC) using infrared spectroscopy technique. 36 spectrograms were studied. Elements of similarity and difference were revealed in the spectrograms of organic substance (antifreeze, sodium cyclamate and fatty tissue), of DRLC of the crystal-forming matter CuCl(2)x2H(2)0, of DRLC of a live person and cadaveric liquor (with no brain injury in respective case histories), of DRLC of liquor of live persons with a brain injury, of DRLC of liquor of persons who died of a brain injury and of persons who died of other causes.

[Diagnostic evaluation of main signs of liquor crystallograms in live subjects with craniocerebral injuries of different severity]. / Diagnosticheskaia otsenka osnovnykh priznakov kristallogramm likvora u zhivykh lits pri cherepno-mozgovoi travme razlichnoi stepeni tiazhesti.

Liquor samples from 159 live subjects with craniocerebral injuries were analyzed. Forty-four patients had brain concussions, 30 light contusions of the brain, 43 medium-severe contusions of the brain, and 42 severe contusions of the brain. Crystallograms were evaluated by 37 signs detected visually and by stereoscopy. The main diagnostic criteria for evaluation of the severity of craniocerebral injury were defined.

[Crystallographic analysis of liquor for diagnosis and life-time evaluation of craniocerebral injury]. / Primenenie kristallograficheskogo metoda issledovaniia likvora dlia diagnostiki i opredeleniia stepeni tiazhesti cherepno-mozgovoi travmy u zhivykh lits.

Liquor specimens were examined by crystallography in 136 patients with craniocerebral injuries of different severity, hospitalized at the neuroinjury department of Kaliningrad Emergency Hospital and in 12 normal subjects in 1997-1998. The crystallograms were evaluated by a sum of signs, as a result of which specific patterns of colony growth in health and craniocerebral injury of different severity were obtained.

[The use of a method of sequential mathematical analysis for the differential diagnosis of trauma from a fall from a height and of trauma due to the collision of a moving automobile with a pedestrian by the chest injuries]. / Primenenie metoda posledovatel'nogo matematicheskogo analiza dlia differentsial'noi diagnostiki travmy ot padeniia s vysoty i travmy ot stolknoveniia dvizhushchegosia avtomobilia s peshekhodom po povrezhdeniiam grudi.

Fifty cadavers of subjects dead after falling from height and 50 cadavers of subjects dead as a result of collisions between moving cars and pedestrians were examined. Under study were injuries to soft tissues of the chest, thoracic bones and viscera, and combinations thereof. Mathematical probability successive analysis after Gubler (1978) helped distinguish 64 highly informative injuries-signs which permit determining the type of injury. Diagnostic coefficients and informative value of these signs are presented in the differential diagnostic table.

[A comparative analysis of the chest injuries in different types of traumatic exposure]. / Sravnitel'nyi analiz povrezhdenii grudi pri razlichnykh vidakh travmaticheskogo vozdeistviia.

A total of 200 death cases from various injuries are analyzed using the files of the Kaliningrad Bureau of Forensic Medical Expert Evaluation over 1991-1992. Chest injuries were found to occur most often in men aged 31 to 40. The predominant lesions are abrasions, hemorrhages in soft tissues, rib fractures, and lung injuries.

[A comparative analysis of the incidence of the occurrence of injuries to the soft tissues, bones and internal chest organs in trauma from a fall from a height and from the collision of a moving car with a pedestrian]. / Sravnitel'nyi analiz chastoty vozniknoveniia povrezhdenii miagkikh tkanei, kostei i vnutrennikh organov grudnoi kletki pri travmakh ot padeniia s vysoty i stolknoveniia dvizhushchegosia avtomobilia s peshekhodom.

The author compares the incidence of injuries to soft tissues, bones, and thoracic organs in two types of traumas: falling from height and collision of a pedestrian with a moving car. A total of 100 corpses of subjects who died from such traumas were examined. The incidence of the detected injuries is shown on figures. Comparison of the graphic images indicates that trauma from falling from height results in more massive and numerous injuries to the chest than from collision with a moving car. Fractures of the spine, bleedings to the pleural cavity, mediastinum, and the heart coating, and ruptures of the aorta, lungs, and heart more often result from falling from height. Collision of a pedestrian with a moving car more often leads to fractures of the clavicle, sternum at the level of the third or fourth sternocostal joining, and punctate hemorrhages under the lung pleura.