[Intrapericardial rupture of the inferior vena cava caused by blunt trauma].

A thirty-years-old man with pectus excavatum was unconscious, in shock and with a history of blunt trauma of the chest and epigastrium admitted to hospital. After a short time he developed signs of pericardial and peritoneal effusion with tamponade and circulatory failure. Urgent laparotomy and sternotomy was performed.

[Treatment of blood vessel injuries in the extremities].

The authors give an account of a group of 53 patients with injuries of the acral blood vessels, treated at the hospital and policlinic in Banská Bystrica between Jan. 1, 1979 and Dec. 31, 1988.