SURGICAL ANATOMY

Surgical Anatomy

Surgical Anatomy

Surgical Anatomy

The adrenal glands were first described in 1552 by the Italian anatomist Bartolomeo Eustachi in his Opuscula Anatomica as ‘‘glandulae renis incumbentes’’ (glands lying on the kidney) [1], but their function remained controversial for the next 300 years [2]. The adrenal have a dual origin (Fig. 2.1a, b), i.e. the cortex arises from mesoderm whereas the medulla has a neuroectodermal origin [2]. T...

Surgical Anatomy. 2nd edition

specialist interested in working up a medical finding in a patient; however, given its objectives, this text may lack the detail that an internal medicine resident might require. Another valuable characteristic of this text is that it emphasizes selecting procedures based on their yield and cost, an aspect of medicine that is not emphasized in traditional medical education. This volume represen...

Surgical Applied Anatomy