Clinical Anatomy

Advice

The aim is to provide helpful tips, not to reproduce a textbook!

Specification Template 1

Here is the first way that you can split up anatomy issues:

• Description (size, shape, colour, function, hormones)
• Relations (superior/inferior, right/left, anterior/posterior, correlative levels)
• Course (direction, over/under, through/around)
• Support Structures (bones, cartilage)
• Movement (muscles)
• Vascular Supply (arterial supply, venous drainage, lymphatic drainage)
• Innervation (Autonomic, Somatic)
• Clinical relevance
• Oncological relevance

Specification Template 2

Here's another way of doing exactly the same thing!…

1. Location of the structure, organ or tumour [include boundary definitions ]
2. Appearance of the organ in vivo
3. Related ‘critical’ tissues and anatomical regions e.g. SCF + surgery, & RT.
4. Routes of spread – including:
   1. Local planes/direct spread
   2. Lymphatic
   3. Haematogenous
   4. Transcoelomic
   5. Neurological
   6. Iatrogenic
5. Landmarks
   1. surface
   2. radiological
   3. other imaging
6. Organ supply chains
   1. neurological supply
   2. major vascular supply
      1. artery
      2. veins
      3. lymphatics
   3. impact of supply chain anatomy on RT plan and decisions (e.g., PNI, LVI)

Anatomical Sites

• Anatomy Format

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• Bladder
• Larynx
• Mandible
• Parotid gland
• Pituitary gland
• Tongue

• Cranial Nerve I
• Cranial Nerve II
• Cranial Nerve III
• Cranial Nerve IV
• Cranial Nerve V
• Cranial Nerve VI
• Cranial Nerve VII
• Cranial Nerve VIII
• Cranial Nerve IX
• Cranial Nerve X
• Cranial Nerve XI
• Cranial Nerve XII

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