Dear MARMAM Group Readers,

 

On behalf of the Aquatic Animal Virtopsy Lab (https://www.facebook.com/AAVLab2014) in City University of Hong Kong, my colleagues and I are pleased to share our new paper “Illustrated cross-sectional computed tomography of the cetacean abdomino-pelvic organs”, in the Annals of Anatomy. Access the manuscript and download the fulltext at https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1jhcl3LynVvZn4 before 20 October 2024 for Free! 

 

Kot, B. C. W., Yeong, J. W. Y., Kwan, A. S. Y., Ho, G. Y. H., Ho, H. H. N., Tsui, H. C. L., Chung, T. Y. T., & Gerussi, T. (2024). Illustrated cross-sectional computed tomography of the cetacean abdomino-pelvic organs. Annals of anatomy = Anatomischer Anzeiger : official organ of the Anatomische Gesellschaft, 256, 152317. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aanat.2024.152317

Anatomy fundamentals are essential for understanding the relationship between the various components of the animal body. Understanding anatomy is a very essential key to diagnosing patients and to the practice of health and medicine. With our experiences on conducting cetacean virtopsy since 2014, postmortem computed tomography (CT) has been extensively used and thereby, we documented the cross-sectional CT imaging anatomy of the cetacean abdomino-pelvic region (using Indo-Pacific finless porpoises as the illustration) for the first time. The manuscript was an excellent demonstration of teamwork among several student researchers in our AAVLab since 2020, which is now published in the Annals of Anatomy as a standard anatomical reference for cetacean scientists, researchers, students, and veterinarians worldwide.

Highlight:

• Understanding the normal abdomino-pelvic topography in cetaceans is important.

• Computed tomography assists abdomino-pelvic anatomical studies and postmortem assessments in stranded cetacean.

• Addition of angiography with PMCT (PMCTA) is essential to enhance the contrast between abdomino-pelvic structures and organs.

I would like to extend my gratitude to readers of our work, as well as editors and reviewers for their contributions to this finished version. If you have any questions regarding the work or would like a direct copy, please do not hesitate to get in touch, at briankot@cityu.edu.hk.

Happy reading 🙂

Warm regards,

Brian Kot