...L. Janick; R.C. DeNovo; R.W. Henry Plastinated specimens, when prepared with a design for endoscopic use, can serve as a practical model for teaching. Intact alimentary canals were excised from fresh canine cadavers. Cannulas in excess of the intended endoscope size (9.6 mm diameter) were placed...

...A.H. Weiglein Plastination is a unique technique of tissue preservation developed by Dr. Gunther von Hagens in Heidelberg, Germany, in 1978. In this process, water and lipids in biological tissues are replaced by curable polymers which are subsequently hardened, resulting in dry, odorless...

...Y. Masuda; Y. Yoshida; K. Minagawa; J. Zhang; T. Yohro A database of plastinated materials was set up and distributed with a CD-ROM on the Internet. A total of 197 specimens, prepared at the Medical Museum of the University of Tokyo between 1991 and 1995, were catalogued in the database...

...M. Taguchi; S. Shimaguchi; F. Koike; Y. Yoshida Volumegraph, which is an improved version of the parallax panoramagram, has been studied as a method of stereophotography of a plastinated human body specimen. The volumegraph provides a steric view of the specimen in a natural color appearance...

.... The methods established are either very costly, time consuming and prone to artefacts, or sections are too thick for a histological work-up. Prior decalcification causes major shrinkage, thus morphometry is not feasible. We describe a technique of sheet plastination to produce whole-organ sections which...

.... Queensland. Australia Design of Lifting Gear for a Plastination Laboratory Key Words Plastination Lilting Gear Explosive vapours Abstract Conventional lifting gear based on steel components can be safely used in a lab­ oratory where acetone is used provided that: (a) the circumstances under which significant...

... methods into the course resulting in a structured program of clinically based teaching of gross anatomy to second- and third-year medical students. The recently developed method of El2 epoxy resin sheet plastination of sectioned cadaver specimens has expanded the learning process twofold, firstly...

...G. Grondin; R.W. Henry; L. Janick; S. Bérubé Since the introduction of the plastination process by von Hagens [Anat Rec 194/2: 247-256, 1979], the cost of acetone used for the dehydration step has been considered an important factor in the cost of plastination. We have developed a three-step method...

...M. Magiros; M. Kekic; G.A. Doran Plastination is a process whereby the tissue water and part of the tissue fat of anatomical specimens is replaced with a curable polymer. Several variations of this technique are available, depending on both the type of specimen and polymer being used. In this study...