[Open injuries of the brain from the anatomo-clinical aspect].

A combined clinico-pathological and experimental investigation of the open traumatic brain lesions was performed. Clinical investigation of 266 patients is presented along with pathological findings in 9 autopsied brains of victims of craniocerebral trauma which died at different terms after the injury. Experimentally investigated were 25 cats with brain lesioned at various sites.

[Anatomo-clinical aspects of traumatic spinal cord lesions].

A comprehensive clinical (150 patients), pathological (6 autopsied spinal cords) and experimental (17 animals) investigation of the spinal cord posttraumatic affections was conducted. The afferent and efferent spinal nerve fibers degeneration was compared and its spatial distribution assessed. Transsynaptic and immediate connections between spinal structures and cranial nerve nuclei are shown to be the major determinants of the intercentral integration and CNS plasticity.

[Descending pathways of the cerebral cortex to nuclear structures of the extrapyramidal system].

The connections of the neocortical structures in animal and human brains with the complex of nuclear formations of the extrapyramidal system have been studied. The authors present comparative characteristics and distribution of these connections in the nuclear and other formations of the extrapyramidal system. Both mediator (via the thalamus) and direct cortical projections toward the nuclei of the extrapyramidal system in primates, especially in humans, have been found to increase.

[Various anatomic and clinical features of traumatic lesions of the spinal cord].

Results of a pathomorphological, experimental and clinical study designed to ascertain morphological changes associated with impairment of vital visceral functions following spinal cord trauma are presented. Clinical manifestations of such disorders were studied in 127 patients with complicated vertebral fractures. Further investigations involved postmortem examination of the brain of four patients with complete anatomical rupture of the spinal cord at the level of CV, CVI, and LI segments as well as the brain of 18 mature cats with various types of spinal cord resection which were treated by silver impregnation according to Bilshovsky, Naute with the final staining of the nuclear structures according to Kawamura-Niimy.