The discovery of the parathyroid gland by the Uppsala anatomist Ivar Sandström (Figure 1) is often called the last anatomical discovery. That remarkable discovery was made in 1877 at the Anatomical Department in Uppsala. At that time Sandström was a young medical student, who had worked as an assistant at the department since 1873. His discovery was published inUpsala Läkareförenings Förhandlin...

The knowledge of variations in the superficial veins is of clinical importance for the anatomist, radiologists, clinical practitioners and surgeons in order to plan about the operative procedures. Usually cephalic vein drains into the axillary vein. In this case report study the left cephalic vein communicates with the left external jugular vein and made a common trunk at th...

Inconsistent anatomical concept representation can be identified in anatomy textbooks and hard copy term lists, as well as in UMLS source vocabularies and other controlled medical terminologies. In this report we select some examples of inconsistent representations of anatomical concepts, and illustrate how these inconsistencies can be explained and reconciled by the Digital Anatomist Foundatio...

Human body parts are useful in the predictive study of unknown. The aim this is to know normative values canthi Ekowe people. Measurements such as inner and outer canthal distances were carried out. mean value innercanthal distance for males females 3.55±0.58 3.43±0.52. male female 13.91±0.84 13.62±0.76. index 25.59±4.54 25.30±4.03. Sexual dimorphism exists statistical significant difference wa...

We present a new application of the Image Analogies algorithm to be used for image segmentation. Our approach requires supervised training data, so we apply it to the domain of labeling human anatomical data. In the Visible Human Project, expert anatomists are overwhelmed with high-resolution images to analyze. We propose that the anatomist can work in conjunction with our approach, letting the...

816 November 2014, Vol. 104, No. 11 Choledochal malformations (CMs) may be characterised by inherent dilatation of the biliary tree without evidence of mechanical obstruction. Dilatation varies from florid and cystic to subtle and fusiform, and was first recognised during postmortem dissection by the German anatomist Abraham Vater, who reported his findings in his 1723 thesis.[1] The objective ...

INTERACTIVE ATLASES Collections of annotated images have application in many areas of medicine. As part of the Digital Anatomist Project, our group has developed a series of web based atlases, each consisting of annotated images depicting anatomic structures. The atlases are interactively accessed over the Web via "cgi" programs. The atlases are used in undergraduate medical education courses a...