The Student's Interest in Anatomy Is Vitalized Only as the Anatomic Facts Are Correlated With Those Practical Problems With Which He Is Confronted as a Practitioner of Medicine

The student's interest in anatomy is vitalized only as the anatomic facts are correlated with those practical problems with which he is confronted as a practitioner of medicine. The purpose of Surgical Anatomy is to present anatomic facts in terms of their clinical values, and thus properly appraise those structures and regions which have a practical interest for the surgeon. Campbell was born in 1865 and died in 1926 and was a surgeon in New York. He recognized the importance of practical anatomy for the student and practitioner. This issue of Clinical Anatomy has relevant papers for both trainees and professionals in clinical anatomy. These include MRI details of Hoffa's fat pad, ultrasound assessment of the lateral pterygoid muscle, and visualization of the dentogingival junction using specialized plastination techniques.