The designation 'Adam Bogen' (arch) which is used in the German literature as a description of the thick medial cortex of the femoral neck is incorrect. This arch was described by Robert Adams (1795-1871), who was an Irish anatomist and surgeon. Adams, Colles and Smith were outstanding surgeons who described fractures of the proximal femur in detail during the first half of the 19th century and...

of uniform -excellence. This, of course, indicates editorial expertise of a high order. Naturally the expert in a particular field will find matters of detail to criticize-this is inevitable in a comprehensive textbook. For example (p. 82) osteoblasts are said to increase by mitotic activity. They don't. Osteoblasts are always recruited from neighbouring undifferentiated cells: the latter alone...

Bell's palsy, named after the Scottish anatomist, Sir Charles Bell, is the most common acute mononeuropathy, or disorder affecting a single nerve, and is the most common diagnosis associated with facial nerve weakness/paralysis. In the past 2 years, both the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) and the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF) have published ...

The paper presents a case of a 65 year old white male with atherosclerosis, severe left triple renal arteries stenoses and secondary renovascular hypertension (RVH). The patient was treated in a single session by percutaneous balloon angioplasty and stenting of the three left renal arteries with important atherosclerotic lesions. The uneventful evolution permitted patient’s discharge next day a...

It is rare that the birth date of a branch of science can be determined rather precisely. The beginnings of modern developmental neurobiology can be traced to the eighties of the last centurv and to two eminent men: the German embryologist and anatomist Wilhelm His (1831-1904) and the Spanish neurologist Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934). Of course, the development of the nervous system had be...

The aim of this study is to explore how the dead human body socially produced through practices those involved in teaching anatomy cadaveric dissection. perspectives anatomists learning teach offer a novel perspective on existing literature. draws data from interviews with students and staff practical dissection during UK postgraduate education programme. Interviews addressed participants’ expe...

Background: Diameter of carotid canal is very much important because hypo-plastic CC leads to multiple ofneuro vascular complications, passing through these CC.Method: 45 male, 30 female adult non-pathological, dried crania were studied. The cranial Index was measuredby winged calliper and diameter by digital verniercalliper. obtained values correlated statistically.Results: Mean value CI 64.09...

The eighteenth century can rightly be considered the time of most remarkable inventions in studying lymphatic system. Swiss Johann Conrad Peyer (1653–1712), his "Exercitatio anatomico-medica de glandulis intestinorum earumque usu et affectionibus" (1677) described presence organized vessels mucous membrane small intestine, which are named Peyer's plaques honor. Alexander Monro from University E...