World Journal of
Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences

IMPORTANCE OF ANATOMICAL VARIATIONS FOR SURGERY AND CLINICAL PRACTICE

Sahar Youssef*

ABSTRACT

The human body presents a variety of structural patterns and arrangements, known as anatomical variation. These variations usually have no effect on human health, but some variations may cause surgical faults due to an unusual or variant anatomy that attributed to patient injury. Anatomical variations related to the clinical training is not considered in most of anatomy courses in early medical education. It is crucial for surgeon and physician to know and understand the anatomical variation for effective diagnosis and treatment. It is important to introduce teaching and evaluating the anatomical variations in the medical curricula and postgraduate training of radiological and surgical programs. This review is written to highlight some variant anatomy that can affect the outcome of a surgical procedure and clinical practice.

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