The teaching of anatomy has consistently been the subject of societal controversy, especially in the context of employing cadaveric materials in professional medical and allied health professional training. The reduction in dissection-based teaching in medical and allied health professional training programs has been in part due to the financial considerations involved in maintaining bequest pr...

Anatomical Department University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Victor Babes" Timisoara, Romania ABSTRACT: In this study, a three-dimensional (3-D) model of the pelvis was built based on thin slice plastination cross-sections of the adult female pelvis and 3-D reconstruction technology. A female pelvis was obtained, MRI scanned, plastinated, sectioned and subjected to 3-D computerized reconstruction...

Computerised modelling methods have become highly useful for generating electronic representations of anatomical structures. These methods rely on crosssectional tissue slices in databases such as the Visible Human Male and Female, the Visible Korean Human, and the Visible Chinese Human. However, these databases are time consuming to generate and require labour-intensive manual digitisation whi...

Aim Preservation of macroparasites by infiltrating the polymer in the tissues can defy the inherited shortcoming of classical wet preservation method. Materials and Methods Preservation was done by infiltrating the melamine alone or with xylene (MX)/chloroform (MC)/turpentine oil (MT) in 1:1 and hardener (MH) in 9:1 ratio in the tissues of the gross specimen of the animal parasites. Results...

Objectives The size and shape of a joint cavity are the key determinates for the mobility of the joint. The anatomy and configuration of the facet joint (FJ) recesses at different levels of the spine remain unclear and controversial. The aim of this study was to identify the configuration of the FJ recesses in the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine using a combination of micro-CT and sheet pla...

The preservation and demonstration of anatomical specimens that retain much of their natural features has been a long-standing goal of anatomists, pathologists and other medical educators. Preservation of most biological tissues is performed using liquids such as formaldehyde, alcohol, and glycerin. Although these commonly used liquids are efficient, they have many disadvantages (Baptista et al...

MIRCEA-CONSTANTIN SORA1, PATRICIA FEIL2, MAXIMILLIAN BINDER1, PETRU MATUSZ3*, HORIA PLES4 1Plastination Laboratory, Microscopy & Advanced Optical Imaging, Medical University of Vienna, Schwarzspanierstr. 17, Vienna 1090, Austria, 2Department of Surgery, Division of Pediatric Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, Vienna 1090, Austria, 3 “Victor Babes” University of Medic...