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The First Description of the Palmaris Brevis MuscleFrom the Section of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital, Birmingham, AL, USA, the Department of Cell Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL, USA, the Department of Neurosurgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA, the Department of Anatomical Sciences, St. George's University, Grenada, the Department of Education and Development, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA, the Tabriz Medical University, Tabriz, Iran and the Division of Orthopedics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA Correspondence: Dr R. Shane Tubbs, Pediatric Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital, 1600 7th Avenue South ACC 400, Birmingham, AL 35233, USA. Tel.: +1 205 939 9914; fax: +1 205 939 9972. E-mail:rstubbs{at}uab.edu
Giovanni Battista Canano was born in Italy in 1515 and his work has gone mostly unknown. Very few copies of this anatomist and physician's book are known to exist. Interestingly, Canano reported and depicted what we believe, to be the first description of the palmaris brevis muscle. This description would be some 200 years prior to what is thought to be the earliest mention of this muscle by William Cheselden in his book, The Anatomy of the Human Body, published in 1713.
Key Words: history • hand • upper extremity • anatomy
Journal of Hand Surgery (European Volume), Vol. 32, No. 4,
382-383 (2007) |
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