[Surgical anatomy of the internal carotid artery].

Starting from the carotid trigone, a surgical approach to the parapharyngeal part of the internal carotid artery is described. The retrostyloidal part of the lateropharyngeal space is opened up from laterocaudal after resecting the posterior belly of the digastric muscle and the styloidal muscles. Vulneration of the cranial nerves (VII, IX, X) has to be prevented.

[About the so-called ischemic-ulcerative innerwall lesion of the bowels proximal to intestinal stenoses (author's transl)].

The ischemic ulceration resp. the ischemic necrosis of the intestine's internal wall located proximal to an obstruction is a rare complication. At present this diagnosis is established by the radiologist alone.

[Causes of death in lightning strokes (author's transl)].

On the basis of the literature and of their own investigations, including animal experimentation, the authors attempt to show the possible causes of death following lightning strokes. Animal experiments give evidence of the important role of cardiac arrhythmias, in particular of asystolia and ventricular fibrillation. Cardiac arrest, respiratory standstill, burns, fractures, mechanical lesions of internal organs and hemorrhages are stated as causes of death.