BACKGROUND Exposure of the anterior or lateral lumbar via the retroperitoneal approach easily causes injuries to the lumbar plexus. Lumbar plexus injuries which occur during anterior or transpsoas lumbar spine exposure and placement of instruments have been reported. This study aims is to provide more anatomical data and surgical landmarks in operations concerning the lumbar plexus in order to ...

The development of automatic techniques for the analysis of abdominal CT images is a topic of large interest. By using automatic techniques, objective diagnostic support can be provided to physicians and organ segmentation can eliminate time-consuming manual procedures such as delineation. Automatic kidney segmentation has been achieved for healthy cases but is unsuccessful in cases with diseas...

Crohn’s disease is characterized by chronic intestinal inflammation and not rarely by extraintestinal manifestations. Psoas abscess and fistula is a rare complication of Crohn’s disease, which is sometimes difficult to diagnose in the early stage. We describe the case of a 22-year-old male patient with Crohn’s disease who presented to us with difficulty in walking and pain in the area of the ri...

BACKGROUND Housekeeping genes, which show constant protein expression patterns between different tissue types, are very important in molecular biological studies as an internal control for protein research. METHODS The protein expression profiles of seven housekeeping genes (HPRT1, PPIA, GYS1, TBP, YWHAZ, GAPDH and ACTB) in various rat tissues (cerebrum, cerebellum, cardiac ventricle and atri...

Title Huge pancreatic pseudocyst migrating to the psoas muscle and inguinal region. Author(s) Tajima, Yoshitsugu; Mishima, Takehiro; Kuroki, Tamotsu; Kosaka, Taiichiro; Adachi, Tomohiko; Tsuneoka, Noritsugu; Kanematsu, Takashi Citation Surgery, 145(3), pp.341-342; 2009 Issue Date 2009-03 URL http://hdl.handle.net/10069/21349 Right © Copyright 2009 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved. NAOSITE: Na...

A case is reported of ureteral obstruction due to retained corpus luteum. The patient had previously undergone a hysterectomy and salpingo-ovariectomy with incomplete removal of ovarian tissue on both sides. The ureteral obstruction was treated by the excision of the mass and the reimplantation of the obstructed ureter into the bladder hitched to psoas muscle.

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was used to measure, in vivo, the volume of several organs and tissues of a total of 111 pigs (males and females) ranging in BW from 6.1 to 97.2 kg. In one experiment the in vivo MRI volumes were compared to tissue or organ weights obtained by dissection. For internal organs, the correlation (R2) between MRI volume and dissected weight ranged from 0.64 (SE of es...