Acknowledgments
We are grateful to the people who very nobly donated their bodies to the Surgical Anatomy Education Centre at the Yonsei University College of Medicine. Additionally, the authors wish to thank Jun Ho Kim, Jong Ho Bang, and Tae-Jun Ha for their technical support (all are staff members of the Surgical Anatomy Education Centre at the Yonsei University College of Medicine). All authors thank Jehoon O for providing the figure materials.
Funding
This study was financially supported by the “Hankookilbo Myung-Ho Seung” Faculty Research Assistance Program of Yonsei University College of Medicine (6-2022-0069). This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIT) (No. RS-2023-00246638). This research was supported by the Brain Korea 21 FOUR Project for Medical Science, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea (to H-MY). This study was funded by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), funded by the Korean government (NRF-2021R1A2C2008034).
Competing Interests
The authors have no relevant financial or non-financial interests to disclose.
Author contributions
Concept and design: MK, T-HC, H-MY; Acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data: All authors; Drafting of the manuscript: MK, T-HC, H-MY; Critical review of the manuscript for important intellectual content: All authors; Statistical analysis: MK, T-HC, SHK – Shin Hyung Kim, JEL, HJK, H-MY; Obtained funding: JEL, H-MY; Administrative, technical, or material support: MK, T-HC, SHK – Shin Hyung Kim, SHK – Se Hoon Kim, JEH, ISY, H-MY; Supervision: MK, T-HC, H-MY
Data availability statement
The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
Ethical approval
The cadavers had been legally donated to the Surgical Anatomy Education Centre of the Yonsei University College of Medicine (Approval number: YSAEC 23-008). The institutional review board approved the study (IRB number: 4-2020-0986).
Consent to participate
The subjects had provided consent for donating their bodies for research purposes.
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Authors and Affiliations
Department of Anatomy, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, 03722, Republic of Korea
Miri Kim, Jong Eun Lee, In-Seung Yeo, Hun-Mu Yang
Translational Research Unit for Anatomy and Analgesia, Seoul, 03722, Republic of Korea
Miri Kim, Tae-Hyeon Cho, Shin Hyung Kim, Jong Eun Lee, In-Seung Yeo, Hun-Mu Yang
Department of Anatomy, College of Korean Medicine, Semyung University, Jecheon, 27136, Republic of Korea
Tae-Hyeon Cho
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, 03722, Republic of Korea
Shin Hyung Kim
Department of Pathology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, 03722, Republic of Korea
Se Hoon Kim
Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, Korea University, Seoul, 02841, Republic of Korea
Hyun Jung Kim
Department of Biomedical Laboratory Science, College of Software and Digital Healthcare convergence, Yonsei University MIRAE Campus, Wonju, 26493, Republic of Korea
Ju-Eun Hong
Surgical Anatomy Education Centre, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, 03722, Republic of Korea
Hun-Mu Yang
Department of Anatomy, Graduate School of Medical Science, Brain Korea 21 Project, Yonsei University College of Medicine
Hun-Mu Yang