The clinical and surgical importance of anatomical knowledge of the musculocutaneous nerve and its variations is due to the fact that one of the complications in many upper-limb surgical procedures involves injury to this nerve. During routine dissection of the right upper limb of a male cadaver, we observed an anatomical variation of this nerve. The musculocutaneous nerve originated in the lat...

Hyoid bone is a solitary bone localized at the level of cervical 3 vertebrae, connected to the adjacent bone structures with muscles and tendons. Anatomical variations of hyoid bone can cause difficulties in the application of forensic medicine together with clinical and surgical problems. We present a case of a 81-year-old woman, reported to got sick, who died at home. In the autopsy, the neck...

Evolutionary change comes from natural and other forms of selection acting on existing anatomical and physiological variants. While much is known about selection, little is known about the details of how genetic mutation leads to the range of heritable anatomical variants that are present within any population. This paper takes a systems-based view to explore how genomic mutation in vertebrate ...

Objective. Rare case presentation of thyroid cartilage variation causing globus sensation and dysphagia. Method. Case report and review of the literature concerning thyroid cartilage variant of clinical significance. Results. Middle-aged male patient presented with globus sensation and painful swallow without previous injury of the larynx. Clinical examination and diagnostic procedures revealed...

A 79-year-old male patient with chronic atrial fibrillation and a history of mitral valve repair including ring annuloplasty several years ago underwent coronary angiography (fig. 1) for acute coronary syndrome, which showed the culprit lesion in the proximal left circumflex (LCx) artery. Angiography also showed a branch that arose just proximal to the culprit lesion, coursed on the left and th...

We report a 26-year-old male patient who was admitted to our emergency department after a traffic accident and who suffered from neck pain. We have found accidentally a dorsal spinous process schisis, a very rare vertebral abnormality, that we recognized in the X-rays imaging performed for the study of the lung parenchyma.