In each case, "The vital structures were either severed or crushed beyond repair," Dr. Nicastro said.
Mr Reeds said: "It was good fortune that it missed all the vital structures in the neck".
The complex anatomy of the vital structures at the base of the skull makes surgical resection of this area's tumours extremely difficult particularly in cases of malignancy.
The technique provides stable fixation, avoids risk to the vital structures below the clavicle, and has a low rate of implant prominence and low incidences of nonunion and implant failure.
Insofar as the 'third dialectic' has fully integrated the physical and the vital structures so that they no longer act as autonomous systems, one could say that "body and soul are no longer distinguished" (SB, 203).
It is difficult to reconstruct the defect considering the shapes of the vital structures.
No complications of the vital structures, such as vessels, nerves and tendons, were encountered clinically and with MR imaging.
The technique provides stable fixation, avoids risk to the vital structures below the clavicle, and has a low rate of implant-prominence problems.
Stage IIIB disease includes any size tumor that has invaded any of the vital structures of the mediastinum, the carina, or the spine, with or without lymph node involvement.
