All patients underwent a transthoracic esophagectomy with en bloc dissection of regional mediastinal and abdominal (including the celiac trunk region) lymph nodes.
The vertebral spines of the tail and trunk region were reinforced by a rhomboidal latticework of bony (ossified) tendons running in criss-cross fashion between adjacent spines.
In birds the vertebral column of the trunk region undergoes much fusion, and this complexity is reduced, as indeed it is in chelonians (turtles and tortoises).
In addition to Schwann cells and melanocytes, the neural crest of the trunk region gives rise to paired chains of sympathetic nerve ganglia and to certain cells of the adrenal gland.
Arctolepis had a bony head and trunk shield but was unarmoured behind the trunk region; the body tapered to a pointed tail; a tail fin was developed only on the lower margin of the tail.
The posterior appendages, called pelvic fins or hind limbs, articulate with the pelvic girdle, which is situated in the trunk region usually just in front of the anus or cloaca (the ventral posterior body opening in many lower vertebrates).
Ichthyostega was known to have had broad overlapping ribs at least in its trunk region.
Ratings of perceived musculoskeletal effort in the trunk region were significantly less with the device (9.5%-11.4%).
This lesion is slightly more predominant in males and occurs primarily in the extremities and trunk region, usually detected as a rapidly growing painless mass [1 6].
The interpretations of the surface electromyography (sEMG) signals from the trunk region are strongly distorted by the heart activity (ECG), especially in case of low-amplitude EMG responses analyses.
However, the trunk region appeared to be relatively normal (Figure 1A, left panel).
