Liver is the largest gland in the body and rarely shows variations in its lobes and fissures. We studied 55 Formalinfixed livers for occurrence of abnormal shape, lobes, fissures and position of gall bladder. In 60% of cases the liver was normal. 40% livers showed one or the other variations. Additional lobes were found in 9.09% of cases. Additional fissure was found in 1.81% of cases. Presence...

Anatomical variations of lungs are common in clinical practice; however, they are sometimes overlooked in routine imaging. Surgical anatomy of the lung is complex and many variations are known to occur. A defective pulmonary development gives rise to variations in lobes and fissures. Morphological presentation is of clinical importance and profound knowledge of the organogenesis and functional ...

The lungs are divided by the fissures into different lobes. The oblique fissure divides the left lung in to two lobes namely the upper and lower lobes. Defective pulmonary development gives rise to variations in lobes and fissures of lung. In the present case, we report an unreported variant lobar pattern of the left lung, in which the left lung was completely separated in to anterior and poste...

PURPOSE To study MR images for atrophic changes in the calcarine area resulting from retinal degeneration. METHODS MR images from nine patients with retinal degeneration confirmed by ophthalmologic examination and from 30 healthy volunteers were reviewed. The causes of retinal degeneration were hereditary pigmentary degeneration of the retina (four patients), high myopia (two patients), and c...

Image registration is a useful technique to measure the change between two or more images. Lung CT image registration is widely used an non-invasive method to measure the lung function changes. Non-invasive lung function measurement accuracy highly depends on lung CT image registration accuracy. Improving the registration accuracy is an important issue. In this thesis, we propose incorporating ...

During the early stages of myogenesis in X. laevis, the primary myoblasts (of mesodermal origin) differentiate simultaneously, in each myotome, into mononucleate myotubes. At later stages mesenchymal cells appear in intermyotomal fissures and then in the myotomes between myotubes and contribute to the formation ofsyncytial muscle fibres. The pathway of mesenchymals cell during myogenesis was de...

A peculiar liver was found in an adult male cadaver during a dissection class for undergraduate medical students. The quadrate lobe and fissure for the ligamentum teres were totally absent. Thus, the cystic notch on the inferior border was very broad and deep, and the fundus and body of the gall bladder popped out through this notch. The cystic duct terminated into the right hepatic duct at the...

The erosion caused by jets issued from hydraulic structures progressively develops a confined scour-hole on the riverbed. A realistic scour assessment must consider both the influence of the air entrained when the jet plunges into the pool and the flow patterns induced by bottom geometry. This experimental study systematically analyzes the combined influence of jet aeration and pool confinement...

This descriptive study was performed using a qualitative approach. The objective was to listen and report on the etiology of the malformation and learn about the beliefs of relatives regarding the manifestation of oral fissures. Data collection was performed from March to June 2009 using semi-structured interview and analyzed using content analysis. Five categories emerged: mother's reaction, f...

During our dissection classes, we observed a lobulated spleen with multiple hila and fissures. The spleen presented 4 hila and 5 deep fissures. The hila were seen on the visceral surface. The fissures extended into the substance of the spleen from superior border, inferior border and the visceral surface. Because of these fissures, the spleen appeared to be lobulated, having seven distinct lobe...