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K Sahinoglu

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Surgical landmarks during mastoidal and petrosal operations.

This study was made on twenty-one formalin fixed, adult skull left-half specimens. Each of the measurements was made using callipers accurate to 0.1 mm. The dissection of the temporal bone was begun with simple mastoidectomy and completed when the endosteum of the semicircular canals were opened. During the temporal bone dissection step by step, eleven different measurements have been made with small size callipers, and mean, median, range and standard deviations have been determined. The following set of correlations was found to be significant; I--The correlation between the orbitomeatal length and the distance from the most lateral point of the tympanomastoid suture to the facial canal (r = 0.69, p < 0.001). II--The correlation between the orbitomeatal length and the distance from the tympanic ring to the facial canal (r = 0.49, p = 0.011). III--The correlation between the distance from the most lateral point of the tympanomastoid suture to the facial canal and the distance from the tympanic ring to the facial canal (r = 0.71, p < 0.001).

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Human persistent left superior vena cava with doubled coronary sinus.

A heart with a persistent left superior vena cava was found in a 72 year old man during routine dissection. The right superior vena cava was absent. The right brachiocephalic vein crossed over the aortic arch and its branches to the left side of the heart. This variation reportedly occurs in about 0.16% of humans. The azygos vein was, as a result, also left sided with a hemiazygos vein on the right side. The left superior vena cava drained into a channel contained with the posterior wall of the left atrium of the heart above, and parallel with the coronary sinus. The channel of the left superior vena cava opened into the right atrium above the opening of the coronary sinus. The coronary sinus may have been doubled during embryonic development. The two vessels were joined by a small connecting vessel.

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Musculus comitans nervi mediani (M. palmaris profundus).

Palmaris profundus muscles were found in two cadavers during routine dissection of the upper limb. This rare muscle was found in two forms. In the first case, the muscle resembled a diminutive palmaris longus with the belly arising from the common flexor tendon. In the second case however, a reversed muscle with the belly emerging from beneath the transverse carpal ligament and its long thin tendon extended to and inserted in the common flexor tendon. The similarity therefore of these muscles to variable forms of palmaris longus is remarkable but they differed in one very important aspect from palmaris longus. The muscles are of special interest because, in both cases, the muscles were found enclosed in a common fascial sheath with the median nerve. These unusual muscles, in spite of mimicking palmaris longus, may perhaps, be better named "musculus comitans nervi mediani" to denote their very important relationship to the median nerve, that of being the intimate traveling companion of the median nerve through the forearm and into the hand by way of the carpal canal beneath the transverse carpal ligament. In one case, a well developed median artery was also found which also entered the carpal canal along with the median nerve and its muscular companion.

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Human doubled renal and testicular arteries.

Doubled renal and testicular arteries were found in a well-developed 69-year-old caucasian male. The right kidney had two renal arteries, one at its usual midorgan (hilar) position and one inferior polar. One testicular artery arose from the mid-point of the usual renal artery, passed under the renal vein at its junction with the inferior vena cava, and then crossed over the inferior polar renal artery. The second testicular artery arose from the inferior polar renal artery near its origin from the abdominal aorta. The two testicular arteries remained doubled throughout their course and both entered the right testis at separate sites on the organ. The inferior vena cava passed under the inferior polar and over the superior testicular artery and the superior renal artery.

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