This full-page illustration of the posterior fossa highlights a previously unknown vessel that can potentially link the ascending pharyngeal and posterior inferior cerebellar arteries. This branch is of particular importance during vascular surgery in this region, as thrombotic material has the potential to cross this branch and lodge in the medulla.
Reference: Khaled Effendi, MD, FRCSC, Elsa Magro, MD, Jean-Christophe Gentric, MD, Tim E Darsaut, MD, FRCSC, Jean Raymond, MD, FRCP, Romuald Seizeur, MD, PhD, Michel W Bojanowski, MD, FRCSC, Anastomosis Between the Ascending Pharyngeal Artery and the Posterior Inferior Cerebellar Artery Through the Jugular Foramen: A Cadaveric Observation, Operative Neurosurgery, Volume 12, Issue 2, June 2016, Pages 163–167, https://doi.org/10.1227/NEU.0000000000001098
A bite-sized illustration showing the effects of an esophagetomy.
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This vector illustration summarizes the key findings of the article, “Farnesyl pyrophosphate synthase is essential for the promastigote and amastigote stages in Leishmania major” by Mukherje e et al. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molbiopara.2019.03.001).
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