Experimental peripheral nerve repair: environmental control directed at the cellular level.

This study recognizes recent advances in the understanding of the anatomy and physiology of peripheral nerves at the cellular level. It has reproduced study conditions originally advocated by de Medinaceli and coworkers, with modifications. Eighty-four rats were divided into three groups.

Wounded by bayonet, ball, and bacteria: medicine and neurosurgery in the American Civil War.

The American Civil War was a holocaust that illustrated the mid-19th century's unpreparedness for the delivery of medical care to the mass casualties due to both wounds and disease. Several major considerations are offered to explain the soldiers' morbidity. Incomplete understanding of pathophysiology and its management is exemplified by the treatment of the battlefield head injury.

Multiple intracranial arteriovenous malformations: case report.

The authors describe a case of multiple supratentorial intracranial arteriovenous malformations in a patient with a family history of cerebrovascular disease. There was no sign of any other vascular dysplasia. A brief review of this rare entity is given.