Self-Directed Learning Versus Traditional Teaching in Learning Gross Anatomy Among First-Year Medical Students: A Comparative Study.

Introduction: Gross anatomy is the first subject to be grasped by budding medicos before learning a long series of skills and competencies required to bloom as a physician or surgeon. In recent years, the teaching time for anatomy has been reduced. The number of anatomy teachers is much less in comparison to the increasing number of students.

Challenging arterial pattern of foregut and its potential impact on surgery.

Anticipating a wide range of morphological variations of arterial anatomy of foregut derivatives beyond the classical pattern, a precise understanding is pertinent to preoperative diagnosis, operative procedure and to avoid potentially devastating post-operative outcome during various traumatic and non-traumatic vascular insult of foregut. The study aimed to revisit the morphological details and update unusual configurations of arteries of foregut to establish clinico-anatomical correlations. This study described the detailed branching pattern of coeliac trunk (CT) as principal artery of foregut with source & course of hepatic, gastric, duodenal and pancreatic branches in 58 cadaveric dissections.

Liver morphology: anatomical study about the outer aspects.

Purpose: Hepatobilliary surgery is nowadays increasingly done throughout the world with advent of newer liver imaging modalities. Considering recent interest for accurate interpretation of different radiological images and performing surgical procedures, a precise understanding of hepatic surface anatomy is challenging due to high prevalence of previously identified morphological variations. Accordingly, a cadaveric study was attempted to revisit the morphological details of liver updating the unusual configurations along with their clinico-anatomical correlations and thus, compare the analysis of present study with previous published data.

Comprehensive study of pulmonary hilam with its clinical correlation.

Introduction: Awareness of pulmonary hilar variations is essential for lobectomy of lung.

Materials And Methods: We studied 54 left and 49 right hilum of formalin fixed adult cadaveric lungs. Morphologic and mophometric details were recorded and variations were noted.

Morphological Variations of Middle Ear Ossicles and its Clinical Implications.

Introduction: The middle ear ossicles form a semi rigid chain in the middle of the ear for conduction and amplification of sound waves from the tympanic membrane to the inner ear. Although, our knowledge of the ear ossicles dates back to the 15 century, and various studies have been carried out on their morphometry, morphology, anomalies, embryology, function and structure throughout the world, information about the morphology of middle ear ossicles is meagre in Indian subjects.

Aim: To find out the morphological variations of middle ear ossicles of right and left sides.