The lingual nerve supplies the tongue with trigeminal sensory fibers and sensory fibers that originate from the chorda tympani. The aim of this study was to investigate, by dissection, the anatomical features of the lingual nerve at the level of the tongue and to correlate the findings with existing data. Six human adult cadavers dissected bilaterally and 6 specimens of tongue-pharynx-larynx from autopsied adult cadavers were studied. The lingual

In an aged human female cadaver a left accessory aberrant colic artery (LAACA) was observed and studied. It originated from the superior mesenteric artery at 3 cm proximal to the middle colic artery, at the inferior border of pancreas, passing over Treitz's muscle and continued covered by the superior duodenal fold where it crossed the inferior mesenteric vein. Further, it continued with a satellite vein anterior to the left renal vein and the anterior

A completely horizontally impacted upper third molar was revealed after routine dissection of a 62-year-old human cadaver of a Caucasian male. The molar was penetrating into the maxillary sinus and there was antral dehiscence of its bony alveolus. The bony alveolus was immediately in front of the greater palatine canal contents, and the bottom of the alveolus was dehiscent towards the greater palatine foramen. Within the greater palatine canal and

The primitive right sinuatrial valve persists in humans as the crista terminalis, the valve of the inferior vena cava and the valve of the coronary sinus while according to the known data the primitive left sinuatrial valve is supposed to have no derivatives. Ten human right atria were opened with intercaval incisions and the precaval segment of each crista terminalis was studied macroscopically. 3 specimens didn’t present any peculiarities at

The aim of this study was to investigate and correlate the anatomical parameters of the superior laryngeal artery (SLA). For the study, 50 adult, human specimens were used; laryngeal pieces were drawn from 16 cadavers and the arteries were dissected intralaryngeally. In 68%, the SLA originated from the superior thyroid artery and in 32%, directly from the external carotid artery. In five sides, an aberrant superior laryngeal artery (ASLA) was entering

Main Topics Clinical and functional anatomy of the pelvic and reproductive organs (I) Anatomy and plasticity of the peripheral nervous system (II) Lectures and Posters from all areas of Anatomy and Cell Biology are also welcome and will be accepted President of the 103rd International Meeting Professor Dr. Eveline Baumgart-Vogt, Giessen Abstracts can be submitted from October 1st, 2007 via the homepage of the Anatomische Gesellschaft (www.anatomische-gesellschaft.de).

Venue: Cape Town International Convention Centre, South Africa Deadline for submission of abstracts: Not mentioned. President of Congress : Prof. Beverley Kramer Scientific Secretariat: Ms Candice Kotze Mailing Address: Not mentioned. Telephone: +27 (0) 21 406 6733 and + 27-11-7172517 Fax:+27 (0) 21 448 6263 and +27-11-7172422 E-mails: Candice.Kotze@uct.ac.za Website: http://www.assa.uct.ac.za/

During educational dissections at a human adult specimen, male, a complex picture of anatomical variants was encountered. Bilateral doubled renal arteries were found: on the right side superior hilar and inferior hilar renal arteries and on the left side superior hilar and inferior polar renal arteries. All these renal arteries emerged from the abdominal aorta. Also bilateral doubled testicular arteries were found. On the right side the medial testicular

During educational dissections a rare anatomic variant was encountered at the level of the right carotid triangle of a human adult male specimen. The variant was unilateral. On that side the common carotid artery bifurcated slightly above the level of the upper border of the thyroid cartilage, but the external carotid artery was posterolateral to the internal carotid artery and the anterior branches of the external carotid artery (superior thyroid,