[The pathomorphological changes in the epiphysis in chronic alcoholism].

Routine, histochemical and morphometric methods were used in examination of epiphyses in 45 autopsy cases of persons that suffered of alcoholism. Characteristic morphofunctional features of the epiphysis were found in those suffering from alcoholism with a stable and hard drinking character, alcohol epilepsy showing involvement of the epiphysis in the complex pathogenesis of the disease.