The sacroiliac joint: anatomical study in the coronal plane and MR correlation.

The current clinical imaging technique applied to the sacroiliac joint (SIJ) is coronal Computed Tomography (CT). The aims of this study were: 1) to section the cartilage, the ligaments of the SIJ, and their relations to adjacent organs, in a coronal plane; 2) to correlate anatomical and magnetic resonance (MR) sections; 3) to extend these data in vivo. A topographic dissection of a 52 year-old female specimen was performed to identify the various components, and spatial relationships of the SIJ.

Ultrasonographic anatomy of the liver.

Two characteristics of the ultrasonic image, that it is rebuilt and non figurative in its details, led us to establish specific relationships between anatomic structures and their ultrasonic images. The anatomic study was made on fresh, injected, frozen, livers, sectioned along the classical echographic planes. The echographic study was conducted in healthy patients, without any hepatic lesions.

Morphology and functional anatomy of the first dorsal interosseous muscle of the hand.

The aim of this study, based upon anatomical and electrophysiological evaluation, was to identify the relationship between the morphology and physiology of the first dorsal interosseous muscle of the hand, which should be distinguished from the other dorsal interosseous muscles of the hand. Its morphology, distal attachments and physiology have been subject of numerous studies yielding conflicting results. The study reported herein was made on the basis of anatomical and electrophysiological investigation.

[Diagnostic and prognostic contribution of electromyography in postoperative incontinence in men].

The authors have drawn up a classification of sphincteral lesions, using electromyographic criteria, with the aid of electromyograms of the striated sphincter of the urethra in forty eight patients treated surgically for prostatic adenoma, and presenting with postoperative incontinence persisting for more than eight days after removal of the catheter. This classification in turn serves as a basis for the drawing up of prognostic criteria for these incontinences, treated by electrotherapy.