Morphometric and Topographic Features of Stylomastoid Foramen and its Clinical Significance in Facial Nerve Block.

 This study aims to determine the topographic localization of the stylomastoid foramen (SF) and its morphometric relationship with the surrounding bony landmarks.  A descriptive anatomical study.  Anatomy Laboratory of the Faculty of Medicine.

Hair Whorl Direction: The Association with Handedness, Footedness, and Eyedness.

Hair whorl direction and handedness were stated to have a common genetic basis in the . This study was carried out with a total of 317 healthy young males. The association between hair whorl swirling direction and handedness, footedness and eyedness were assessed.

Effect of formaldehyde inhalation on rat livers: a light and electron microscopic study.

It is well known that formaldehyde (FA) is cytotoxic and potentially carcinogenic. Although the individual effects of this reactant on cells has been investigated, the cytotoxicity exerted by the coexistence of FA is poorly understood. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of FA on the liver in rats, by light and electron microscopic level.

Assessment of visualization of structures in the middle ear via Tos modified canal wall-up mastoidectomy versus classic canal wall-up and canal wall-down mastoidectomies.

Objective: The aim of this prospective study is to evaluate the differences in the ability to view structures in the middle ear between Tos modified canal wall-up mastoidectomy and classic canal wall-up (CWU) and canal wall-down (CWD) mastoidectomies.

Methods: Eighteen temporal bones of 10 cadaver heads were used. Six bones were randomly selected for each surgical technique (Tos' technique, CWU and CWD mastoidectomies) and fixed on an operating table.

The synovial plicae in the knee joint.

Objective: To investigate and evaluate the prevalence of 4 kinds of synovial plicae named according to patella, which are inferior, medial, lateral and superior.

Methods: We evaluated plicae in 318 knee arthroscopies through video records, obtained from January 1994 to December 2002 in the Arthroscopy Unit, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Trakya University, Edirne, Turkey. In addition, we also investigated plicae in 7 bilateral knee cadavers.

The extensor indicis et medii communis.

The aim of this study was to examine the existence of the extensor indicis et medii communis in detail. Thirty-one randomly selected adult cadavers (62 upper extremities) were examined for this project (22 males and 9 females between the ages 38 and 87). The muscle was observed in 3 of 62 hands, an incidence of 4.

Anatomical dimensions of anterior bundle of ulnar collateral ligament and its role in elbow stability.

Objective: To study the anatomical dimensions of the anterior bundle of ulnar collateral ligament and its role in elbow instability.

Methods: We studied 20 elbows of 10 cadavers. Anterior bundle of ulnar collateral ligament was dissected in all elbows and its anatomical length and width were measured.

Vortex veins: anatomic investigations on human eyes.

The aim of this study was to determine number of ocular vortex veins, their scleral coordinates, and their relationship with nearby extraocular muscles. Sixty intact cadaver orbits having no history of eye or orbital disorders during life were carefully dissected under stereomicroscopic magnification to expose vortex veins and their exit sites from the eyeball. The number of vortex veins per eye varied from four to eight.

Muscular bridge between the inferior oblique and inferior rectus muscles.

Purpose: In this study, we aimed to investigate the muscular bridge between the inferior oblique (IO) and inferior rectus (IR) muscles of the eye.

Design: Cohort study.

Methods: The orbits of sixty intact cadavers with no history of eye muscle or orbital disorders during life were carefully dissected to expose the muscular bridge between the IO and IR muscles.