[Evaluation of iatrogenic accessory nerve injury in forensic medical practice].

The authors give a survey of the clinical and medical-legal characteristics of the accessory nerve injury. In the past two decades the conception of the successfulness of the surgical treatment of the accessory nerve injury became prevailing. About the medical-legal aspects of the iatrogenic injury of the nerve reported in connection of the reconstructive surgery chiefly also departments of neurosurgery, orthopedics and traumatology.

[Evaluation of syncope in medicolegal expertise].

The authors summarise the clinical characteristics of the syncope and neurological signs respectively caused by basilar vertebral artery insufficiency as well as carotid sinus hypersensitivity. Several authors have seen an increased number of patients with neurological symptoms caused by ischaemia in the region of the basilar artery occurring while driving and causing a traffic accident. Carotid sinus hypersensitivity as cause of driving accidents has much less importance.