Surgical Anatomy for Mastery of Open Operations (2018)
A review of a detailed surgical anatomy text designed to connect anatomical knowledge with the technical demands of open operations.
Medical book reviews, education, and commentary.
A review of a detailed surgical anatomy text designed to connect anatomical knowledge with the technical demands of open operations.
Human Sectional Anatomy: Atlas of body sections, CT and MRI images (2009) by Professor Harold Ellis is an exceptional anatomy book on many different levels. First, it shows you cadaveric sections that have been dissected in three dimensions to highlight some of the three dimensional sections of (what should have been) a two dimensional cut. It’s pretty hard to … Read more
The image below, an artistic superimposition of a drawing of chest cardio-vasculature onto a normal PA and lateral chest radiograph is, in my view, one of the most important images in all of clinical medicine. Source PowerPoint presentation by Dr. Gillian Lieberman on radiographic chest anatomy and from the Medicine Explained blog.