Teaching Pterygopalatine Fossa Anatomy Using 3D Images and Physical Model: A Novel Teaching Strategy.

Unlabelled: Medical students often struggle to appreciate the anatomy of the pterygopalatine fossa. This is due to the difficulty in understanding the spatial orientation through textbook diagrams, as well as its deeper location and smaller size in cadaveric specimens. Research has proven that three-dimensional visualization enhances the spatial understanding of anatomy.

Student Experiential Activities: A Novel Strategy to Teach Neuroanatomy in Lectures.

Introduction Activity-based teaching is a widely used pedagogical tool for enhancing anatomy learning. However, involving the learner in experiential activities in lectures is an unexplored area in medical research. The present study aims to determine whether incorporating student experiential activities into lectures impacts student's learning of neuroanatomy.

Coexistence of variant pronator teres muscle and variant course of the neurovascular structures in the arm: clinical significance.

In literature, the presence of the supracondylar process, fibrous band enclosing the neurovascular structures, and the additional head of pronator teres have been reported as isolated reports. In this article, we describe three unique variations observed in the left upper limb of a 63-year-old female cadaver, (1) the variant origin of pronator teres from the supracondylar process, (2) the variant course of the median nerve and brachial artery passing through a fibrous tunnel in the lower third of the arm, later behind the supracondylar process and the variant pronator teres, and (3) the higher origin of radial artery from the brachial artery in the arm. The knowledge of such rare variants could be resourceful for surgeons in localizing the median nerve entrapment, interpreting arteriograms of the upper limb and avoiding accidental damage to the radial artery.