The clinical characteristics and emergency microsurgical care in eye injuries in children

The paper describes results after primary surgical treatment in 131 children, aged from 2 to 14 years, with severe combined trauma of the anterior segment of the eye complicated by lens injury in 84.4%, prolapse of eye coats in 34.9%, injury of the iris in 12.8%, extensive hemorrhages in 12.8%, intraocular foreign bodies in 6.4%. Besides sutural fixation of corneal and scleral wounds, there were simultaneously made iridoplasty, aspiration of a swelling lens, anterior vitrectomy, removal of a foreign body, organized hyphema and exudate tectonic corneoscleroplasty, and, if indicated, IOL implantation. The functional outcomes (a cure with visual acuity 0.3-1.0 was recorded in 45% of patients) speak in favor of such a method of rendering urgent aid and allow to recommend it into a wide ophthalmological practice.     

Discovery of a stable cell line antigen in human internal organs

A cell membrane antigen was found in stable cell lines of epithelial origin, identical to an antigen in homogenates of the human gastric mucosa. The antigen was detected by means of antiserum against extracted membrane antigens of HeP-2 cells, absorbed by a mixture of homogenates of human lung, liver, and papillomas of the human larynx and breast. The antigen described was found in some of the adenocarcinomas of the stomach that were tested. It differs from Gold's carcinoembryonic antigen and from the secretory component of IgA, it is not the structural antigen of the D-type primate oncornavirus produced by HeP-2 cells and, evidently, it is not coded by the genome of that virus.Department of Etiology and Diagnosis of Tumors, N. F. Gamaleya Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR, Moscow. (Presented by Academician of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR G. V. Vygodchikov.) Translated from Byulleten' Éksperimental'noi Biologii i Meditsiny, Vol. 84, No. 12, pp. 690–693, December, 1977.