Morphology of liver.

Background: Liver size is related to body surface area. The present study was conducted to assess liver size and to find its relationship with body parameters. Also, the external surface of liver was studied for presence of fissures, which may demarcate the vascular segments and the blood vessels beneath them and may help the surgeon for resection of liver segment.

Variations in branching pattern, shape, size and relative distances of arteries arising from arch of aorta.

Hundred aortic arches were studied in adult cadavers (aged 40-70 years) for variations in the origin of branches at arch of aorta in situ and for observing the lumenal diameters and relative distances between the adjacent branches. Usually described three branches arising at arch of aorta were observed in 77.0% specimens.

Brain weight of Northwest Indian children and adolescents.

Brain weight of 708 individuals, 329 neonates (211 males and 118 females), 142 infants (101 males, 41 females), and 237 children and adolescents (136 males and 101 females), from Chandigarh region of northwest India were measured. Brain weight was 371.9 ± 89.