The ultrastructural changes in the central and peripheral nervous system in burns
Isaev, I.M.; Tumanov, V.P.; Vtiurin, B.V.
Arkhiv Patologii 52(4): 39-43
1990
ISSN/ISBN: 0004-1955 PMID: 2386439 Document Number: 353870
Ultrastructural changes of the brain neurons and vegetative nerve ganglions (superior cervical ganglions, ganglion stellatum, ganglions of vagus nerve) were studied on the autopsy material of 30 patients dying at various periods of burn disease at the age of from 19 to 75 years (burn disease III-IV degree, 35-50% of the body surface) and on the experimental material as well. Ultrastructural changes of neurons, their processes, synapsis apparatus, glial cells, mitochondria, endoplasmatic network nuclei and cell membranes are described. The degree of the destructive changes in central nervous system and vegetative nervous ganglions depends upon the period of burn disease and the size of surface burned.