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A Core Head, Neck, and Neuroanatomy Syllabus for Physical Therapy Student Education

Clinical Anatomy, Volume 39, Issue 4, Page 436-460, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Head, neck, and neuroanatomy are essential components of physical therapy education due to their broad clinical applications. Detailed syllabi exist for medical students, yet none have been developed for physical therapy. This study aimed to produce an International Federation of Associations of Anatomists core head, neck, and neuroanatomy ...
Stephanie J. Woodley, Brooke Willoughby, Alexandra L. Webb, Natasha A. M. S. Flack, Laura Y. Whitburn   +4 more
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Laparoscopic median arcuate ligament section for median arcuate ligament compression syndrome initially detected as splenic infarction: a case report

Surgical Case Reports
Background Median arcuate ligament compression syndrome (MALS) causes upper abdominal pain and at times hemodynamic abnormalities in the pancreaticoduodenal region.
Toru Takagi, Yoshifumi Morita, Akio Matsumoto, Shinya Ida, Ryuta Muraki, Ryo Kitajima, Satoru Furuhashi, Makoto Takeda, Hirotoshi Kikuchi, Yoshihiro Hiramatsu, Hiroya Takeuchi   +10 more
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Two cases of pancreaticoduodenal aneurysm with median arcuate ligament syndrome treated with coil embolization and median arcuate ligament incision

Radiology Case Reports, 2022
Median arcuate ligament syndrome is a clinical condition in which the median arcuate ligament causes compression and narrowing of the celiac artery. It has been reported that collateral pathways, which is developed by the decrease of blood flow from the ...
Yoshiki Endo, MD, Hirofumi Sekino, MD, PhD, Shiro Ishii, MD, Ph.D., Ryo Okada, MD, PhD, Yasuhide Kofunato, MD, PhD, Hiroshi Nakano, MD, PhD, Yohei Watanabe, MD, PhD, Shigeru Marubashi, MD, PhD, Koji Kono, MD, PhD, Hiroshi Ito, MD, PhD   +9 more
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Median arcuate ligament syndrome, a rare case of chronic abdominal pain

Italian Journal of Medicine, 2018
The median arcuate ligament syndrome (MALS) is a rare disease characterized by abdominal pain caused by the external compression of the celiac artery by the median arcuate ligament.
Fania Puccia, Roberto Citarrella, Filippo Alessandro Montalto, Luigi Mirarchi, Antonino Terranova, Antonietta Serruto, Roberto Citarrella, Giuseppe Lo Re, Maurizio Soresi   +8 more
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A man with the rare simultaneous combination of three abdominal vascular compression syndromes: median arcuate ligament syndrome, superior mesenteric artery syndrome, and nutcracker syndrome

Radiology Case Reports, 2021
Median arcuate ligament syndrome and superior mesenteric artery syndrome are well-known abdominal compression syndromes, the coexistence of which is rarely described in literature. In addition, due to the common pathogenesis, anterior nutcracker syndrome
Renato Farina, Cecilia Gozzo, Pietro Valerio Foti, Andrea Conti, Tiziana Vasile, Isabella Pennisi, Massimo Venturini, Antonio Basile   +7 more
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A Review of Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Disease: Comprehensive Theory and Evidence for Mechanisms of Action

Comprehensive Physiology, Volume 16, Issue 2, April 2026.
Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) effects span central and peripheral organ systems through diverse mechanistic pathways. This comprehensive review provides a unified synthesis of these mechanisms across neurological, cardiovascular, immunological, metabolic, and gastrointestinal domains, filling a critical gap and serving as a foundational resource for ...
Yifeng Bu, Alex Liang, Benjamin U. Hoffman, Dawn M. Schiehser, Oliver Case, Alan Simmons, Ruth Klaming, Andres Gottfried‐Blackmore, Ravinder K. Mittal, Christopher Puleo, Hubert Lim, Imanuel Lerman   +11 more
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Median Arcuate Ligament Syndrome: A Case Report

Journal of Society of Surgeons of Nepal, 2018
Median arcuate ligament (MAL) syndrome results from extrinsic compression of the celiac axis and or celiac ganglion by the MAL and diaphragmatic crura. A seventy five years lady presented with post prandial epigastric pain for 6 months. She had undergone
Akash Chitrakar, Nirajan Subedi, Ramesh Singh Bhandari   +2 more
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Multivisceral arterial compression by the median arcuate ligament in a 33-year-old woman

Journal of Vascular Surgery Cases and Innovative Techniques
Compression of the superior mesenteric artery (SMA) by the median arcuate ligament (MAL) is a rare cause of MAL syndrome. This is a case of a 33-year-old woman with a history of postprandial abdominal pain who was found to have compression of the celiac ...
Taleen A. MacArthur, MD, Manju Kalra, MBBS, Melinda S. Schaller, MD   +2 more
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Median arcuate ligament syndrome and aneurysm in the pancreaticoduodenal artery detected by retroperitoneal hemorrhage: A case report

Clinical Case Reports, 2018
Key Clinical Massage Here, we report a case with successful treatment of inferior pancreaticoduodenal artery aneurysm rupture due to celiac artery trunk compression caused by the median arcuate ligament.
Takehiko Hanaki, Shiori Fukuta, Masaru Okamoto, Ayumi Tsuda, Takuki Yagyu, Shoichi Urushibara, Kanenori Endo, Kazunori Suzuki, Seiichi Nakamura, Masahide Ikeguchi   +9 more
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Laparoscopic treatment of median arcuate ligament syndrome: A rare cause of chronic severe abdominal pain

Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons, 2017
Median arcuate ligament syndrome is a rare disorder characterized by chronic postprandial abdominal pain and weight loss caused by compression on celiac artery.
Emre Divarci, Ulgen Celtik, Zafer Dokumcu, Ahmet Celik, Orkan Ergun   +4 more
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