Folia Morpholohica 2011, tom 70, nr 2

Myotonic dystrophy (DM) is the most common muscular dystrophy in adults. Two known genetic subtypes include DM1 (myotonic dystrophy type 1) and DM2 (myotonic dystrophy type 2). Genetic testing is considered as the only reliable diagnostic criterion in myotonic dystrophies. Relatively little is known about DM1 and DM2 myopathology...

The blood supply of the liver and other abdominal organs plays a significant role during abdominal surgery. Knowledge of the most common patterns of vascularisation should be broadened and new anomalies of the celiac trunk and its branches dutifully reported. This paper presents two case reports which describe the lack of a proper hepatic arery...

Cor triloculare biventriculare is a rare congenital malformation of the heart in which there is a complete absence of the atrial septum. It is usually associated with other anomalies like complete atrioventricular canal defect, polysplenic syndrome, isolated dextrocardia, Ellis-van Creveld syndrome, or persistent left superior vena cava..

Professor Olgierd Narkiewicz was  born on 21 October 1925 in Vilnius.  He came from the Samogitia gentry,  whose family  hearth was in the ancestral  estate of Szołopiany in Taurogi  County, known from Sienkiewicz’s  “Trilogy”. It has been the  home of the Narkiewicz family since  the sixteenth century. His father, Dr.  Adolf Narkiewicz, was a local doctor  and for some time the Chief Medical  Officer in Vilnius...