BACKGROUND Anatomic deviations, especially those detected during the course of an operation, are medically intriguing, as they raise concerns about their clinical significance and putative complications. CASE PRESENTATION We present, to our knowledge, for the first time a case of an anatomic deviation in the form of a second right atrial auricle in a 70 year-old, coronary bypass-operated male...

P REVIOUS reports have given a description of the cyclic changes in excitability of both auricle and ventricle of the dog’s heart (I, 2). It was found that the dog’s auricle is ‘vulnerable’ to fibrillation throughout the major dip area of the excitability-recovery curve (3). A study of ventricular vulnerability has now been made. Cats and turtles were used almost exclusively in this investigati...

The validity of the serial compartment analysis of dye dilution curves was tested by injecting dye into the right auricle, pulmonary artery, a pulmonary vein and the aorta consecutively while sampling blood from the carotid artery. It was found that the serial compartment analogy is valid and that the lungs tire the largest volume in the series. In curves obtained by injecting into the pulmonar...

Ramsay Hunt syndrome is an infectious disease caused by the varicella zoster virus. It is characterized by the symptoms of facial paralysis, otalgia, and erythematous vesicular rash on the auricle and/or oral cavity. We present a case of a patient with clinical evidence of Ramsay Hunt syndrome involving the cranial nerves VI, VII, and VIII. The patient, a 66-year-old woman, showed left facial p...

The formation of developmental boundaries is a common feature multicellular plants and animals, impacts the initiation, structure function all organs. Maize leaves comprise proximal sheath that encloses stem, distal photosynthetic blade projects away from plant axis. An epidermally derived ligule joint-like auricle develop at blade/sheath boundary maize leaves. Mutations disturbing ligule/auric...

Congenital aural atresia, a rare entity, may be accompanied with variations in course of facial nerve and congenital cholesteatoma. In the present study, we describe three distinct cases of aural atresia, with successful management, according to the extent of atresia. Management of atresia is essentially a team work, comprising of otologist, plastic surgeon, radiologist and paediatrician, thus ...

Gallbladder duplication in association with other GIT anomalies is a rare entity. We report two neonates; one with duodenal atresia and the other newborn with pyloric atresia, ileal atresia and colonic atresia, both were associated with gallbladder duplication which has not been reported earlier.

A gastric duplication cyst is not a common anomaly of the alimentary tract. The most site tract ileum. We found non-communicating cyst, along with greater curvature stomach during feeding gastrostomy for isolated Oesophageal atresia. are reporting associated atresia and left side one additional floating rib. This third case report in English literature.

Primary tumours of the heart are uncommon. Various authors estimated their frequency at autopsy as follows: Rand and Sachs (1943), o.5 per cent.; Straus and Merliss (I945), 0.0017 per cent.; Lymburner (1934), o.6I per cent. About three-quarters are benign and about half of the benign tumours are the so-called myxomas. Approximately 70 per cent. of these myxomas arise in the left auricle in the ...