Penetrating war injuries of the heart.

Treatment of 12 penetrating heart war wounds were described. Ten wounded (83.3%) died on the spot or during transportation.

[Injuries of the diaphragm examined from 1976 to 1988].

The authors review 28 patients with the diaphragmal injury treated at the Surgical Clinic of the Clinical hospital centre "Firule" Split in the period from 1976 to 1988. The distribution of the injuries in consideration of age and sex, the most frequent lesions of the organs connected with the diaphragmal injury, number of the patients in different years as the structure inside this group of the patients is shown.

[Comparison of the results of surgical and conservative treatment of fractures of the diaphysis of the tibia].

In this paper is treated the fundamental problematic of the fracture of the diaphysis of the tibia and the therapeutic results after the conservative and operative treatment are confronted. Among 518 patients with 433 open fractures and 35 with closed fractures of the diaphysis of the tibia, successful treatment of more 2/3 was obtained in the period from 1968 to 1972. Following our casuistics and literature, whose results are similar, we find out that the average total treatment of the osteosynthesis of the fracture of the diaphysis was shortened for 2,5 months depending upon the type and the localisation of the fracture.