SECTIONAL HUMAN ANATOMY

Alcino Lázaro da Silva*

Teaching systemic, topographic or applied anatomy is essential in the graduating course of medicine. However, its best didactic form to be included in the medical curriculum is still controverse. The time spent during the period of choice and the disposition of the anatomy by means of cadaver, animals and radiology, in horizontal or vertical presentaiition is not established.

The recent advances of the imaginology were based on the ultrasound (US) and the computorized tomography (CT). The advantages of these methods are their efficacy in harmlessly use in living human internal anatomy. Differently from the classic anatomy, both methods present slices or segments of the internal organs.

The importance of the knowledge brought up by the recent imaginology induces to the necessity of a revision in the human anatomy teachings. The physicians must be well prepared to understand all information shown by US and CT. In conclusion, Sectional Human Anatomy applied to imaginology must be included in ali medical curricula.

REFERENCE

1. LÁZARO DA SILVA, A.  - Ed. Anatomia Humana e Segmentar. Anais da FMUFMG,  35: 5, 1986.

* Head of the Digestive System Surgery, Scholl of Medicine, University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brasil.