The butterfies' vertebra-diagnostic difficulties - case report.

The hemivertebras constitute about 33% of all congenital defects of spine and can be detected accidentally during diagnostics of pain syndrome of spine or other neurological disturbances. In the paper is introduced the case of patient with pain syndrome of spine (man, physical worker, 47years old), who was directed to the rehabilitation ward with recognition of pathologic fracture of vertebra Th10. In consideration on lack of correlation between radiological pictures and patient's neurological state the diagnostics was extended for 3D CT.

[Stroke in young woman in the first day after delivery].

Strokes among young people are not only the most threatening complications of the cerebrovascular diseases, but they also lead to considerable disability and society' dependency. Among patients under 40 years old heart diseases constitute about 18% causes of ischaemic strokes. Other causes of strokes are: artery wall dissection, blood clotting disturbances, birth control pills, stimulants (alcohol abuse, cigarettes, narcotics), vascular immunological diseases.