[The peripheral blood indices following penetrating wounds of the chest and abdomen and their prognostic significance].

Blood losses and traumatic stress provoke changes in cellular composition of blood. The greatest blood losses are more frequent in penetrating chest wounds than in penetrating abdominal injuries. A great number of wounded contract leukocytosis which is also more frequent among patients with chest wounds. The lethal cases are definitely more frequent among patients that have no leukocytosis. Immature forms of neutrophils in peripheral blood are more natural for patients with abdominal injuries. More than a half of patients had no eosinophiles in peripheral blood after having been wounded.