Objectives: Roofless individuals represent the most severe category of homelessness. Their clinical characteristics and mortality patterns in Central and Eastern Europe are little known.
Methods: A single-center retrospective case-control study at the internal medicine department in Bratislava, Slovakia was conducted.
Background: The coeliac plexus is often approached due to the diagnosis and treatment of the intractable pain associated with cancerous or non-cancerous pathology of the pancreas or neighbouring organs. Various methods of coeliac plexus blocks are used and the variations in its structure are causes of the failures of such procedures.
Methods: Twenty human cadavers (17 male, 3 females, age range 30-86 years, without any abdominal pathology) were dissected in the supine position.
: The aim of the work is to define the morphological peculiarities of the pelvic autonomic nervous system (ANS) and their importance in the clinical and surgical interventions in the lesser pelvis. : Anatomical variations in the formation of the pelvic ANS were observed in 20 cadavers. The study included 17 men (85%), aged 18 to 84, and 3 women, aged 27 to 86.
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