Introduction: The lateral and anterior approaches to the proximal radius are often used in the surgical treatment of radius shaft fractures. Posterior interosseous nerve injury…
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The mandible condyles are often target to anatomical variations. However, there are a great number of causes, such as age, gender, ethnicity, facial type, occlusal…
Introduction: The term vermiform appendix comes from the Latin vermis which means worm-shaped. The appendix is a muscular cylindrical canal of reduced lumen with the…
The sternal foramen is an anatomic variation widely known in humans. It is caused during fetal development and can be commonly found during routine exams…
It is essential and imperative to humanely use live animals in research and teaching activities and consequently, to search for alternative methods that do not…
The histochemistry is an important area of Histology whose purpose is to evidence, through dyes and reagents, the microscopic structures to make them more evident.…
The sciatic nerve is the largest nerve in the human body. It originates from the lumbosacral plexus (L4-S3). This nerve is subject to numerous anatomical…
The corona mortis (crown of death) is usually considered as the anastomosis between the external iliac vessels and internal iliac vessels over the superior pubic…
The pectoral muscles come from the same muscular mass. In normal anatomy there are two pectoral muscles: the pectoralis major and the pectoralis minor. It’s…
Anatomical studies of the coronary arteries began in the eighteenth century. However, the concept of dominance was only established in 1940, being initially purely anatomical.…