[The cerebral cortex in severe penetrating gunshot craniocerebral trauma (an experimental study)]

Gunshot disturbances of different severeness were induced in rabbit brain by means of specifically worked out experimental model. Cerebral cortex was studied using light and electron microscopy in severe gunshot craniocerebral trauma (SGCT), accompanied with cranial bones and cerebral disorders, plentiful external and internal hemorrhages and death of the animals 1-5 minutes after the shot. Peculiarities of responsiveness to trauma were demonstrated in microcirculatory bed elements, neurons and glial cells. SGCT causes rapid appearance of destructive changes in cerebral cortex with degenerative processes not following hemomicrocirculatory bed disturbances, but developing simultaneously with them.