Microhabitat branchial préférentiel de Microcotyle chrysophrii

Microhabitat Selection by Small Mammals

Habitat selection is the process by which individuals choose among available habitat patches. Habitat availability” as how accessible and procurable physical and biological components of a habitat are to animals. Research on small mammal habitat use helps to broaden their knowledge. Small mammals are often used as an indicator species group to reflect some aspects of “integrity. Small mammal ab...

Bilateral branchial cleft fistula.

1. Department of Radiology, Kennemer Gasthuis, Haarlem, The Netherlands, 2. Department of Radiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Background: An 8-year-old boy was admitted to the pediatric department with two small lumps a few centimeters above the clavicles, medial from the mid-clavicular line, in a symmetrical arrangement (Fig. 1). Sometimes fluid was leaking out of th...

First branchial cleft anomaly.

A 15-year-old girl presented with a cystic swelling since birth behind the ramus of the right mandible and diagnosed clinically as a dermoid cyst. Surgical exploration, however, showed that it was closely related to the external auditory canal, with an extension running medially behind the parotid gland and ending in the bony middle ear. The facial nerve was closely related to the deep part of ...

Internal branchial fistula.

Branchial cysts-adult presentation

INTRODUCTION There are 5 mesodermal arches separated by invaginations of ectoderm (clefts) and endoderm (pouches). Branchial cysts result from failed obliteration of branchial clefts. Second branchial cleft cyst is the most common type, which is found in about 95% of cases (Panchbhai and Choudhary 2012). Branchial cysts are common in the lateral aspect of the neck. They usually appear as a fluc...