ANATOMICAL VARIABILITY OF A SINGLE AGE PERIOD

Abstract

The doctrine of anatomical variability began to form in the works of V.N. Shevkunenko (1909). He and his collaborators (1909-1935) studied the extent of changes in the shape, size and position of human organs, vessels and nerves, that is, determined the limits of individual anatomical variability and the frequency of their detection - otherwise called “horizontal variability”. The doctrine of anatomical variability was further developed in the works of V.N. Shevkunenko’s students - heads of the Department of Operative Surgery and Topographic Anatomy of the Leningrad Pediatric Medical Institute: F.I. Valker (1933-1955) and E.M. Margorin (1955-1982). F.I. Valker and his colleagues studied the individual anatomical variability of the child’s body. This direction of the study of individual anatomical variability has another name - “vertical variability”. Margorin and his colleagues studied the individual anatomical variability of newborns - that is, they studied the individual anatomical variability of a single age period. The article emphasizes the importance of the work of the entire research team of the department, which results in the appearance of monographs, textbooks and collective manuals.