A description of the blood supply is important for clinical reasons. The intratympanic part of the nerve, the mastoid cells, the semicircular canals and the tympanic cavi ty are mainly nourished by the s ty lomastoid artery, a branch of the posterior auricular, which enters the Fal lopian canal at the s ty lomastoid foramen and runs proximally. There are two principal anastomoses . A t the knee...

OBJECTIVES THE AIM OF THE STUDY WAS: Is primary Arterio-venous fistula the vascular access of choice for adequate dialysis and better patient outcome in end stage renal disease. MATERIALS AND METHODS The present study was done in the department of cardiovascular and thoracic surgery at Sher-i-Kashmir institute of medical sciences, Soura, Srinagar Kashmir. Native Arterio-Venous (AV) fistulas w...

The experiment was carried out with 32 genotypes of Brassica rapa including two commercially cultivated varieties as checks to study their mean, range, cv (%) correlation co-efficient, and path co-efficient considering 10 different morphological characters at the experimental farm of SAU, Dhaka during November 2009 to February 2010. Significant variation was observed among all the genotypes for...

Kawahara I, Kuniyasu H, Matsuyoshi H, Goto K, Obata K, Misawa H, Fujii H, Takaki M. Comparison of effects of a selective 5-HT reuptake inhibitor versus a 5-HT4 receptor agonist on in vivo neurogenesis at the rectal anastomosis in rats. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 302: G588–G597, 2012. First published December 22, 2011; doi:10.1152/ajpgi.00284.2011.—It was recently reported that acti...

ABSTRACT Military personnel are at increased risk of asymmetric hearing loss secondary to noise exposure. This report illustrates the importance expeditiously evaluating for retrocochlear pathology even in young active duty service members with or sudden loss. A 36-year-old male presented right-sided and dizziness. Audiometry revealed profound mid-to-high-frequency sensorineural right ear. 10-d...

OBJECTIVE To study whether the use of ultrasonically activated shears (UAS) would improve the safety of pancreatojejunal anastomosis after pancreaticoduodenectomy. DESIGN Retrospective analysis. SETTING University teaching hospital. PATIENTS Seventy patients underwent pancreaticoduodenectomy between April 1997 and May 2001. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Leakage of pancreatojejunal anastomosis a...

BACKGROUND The facial nerve controls facial muscles and expressions. Variability in branching patterns of the nerve creates variability in facial animation, which is evident in facial plastic surgery both between patients and ethnic groups and between sides of the face. Identifying relationships between the main trunk of the facial nerve and its network of branches to soft tissues/bony fixed po...

Variations in the anatomy of the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve (LFCN) have been reported in the literature. LFCN is vulnerable to injury during several surgical operations, therefore any surgeon intervening in the area should be familiar to its topographic variability. Lesion of the nerve leads to a condition known as "meralgia paresthetica". We present a cadaveric case of a variant LFCN wher...