Gliding toward an understanding of the origin of flight in bats

Bats are the only mammals capable of powered flight and have correspondingly specialized body plans, cbb5 particularly in their limb morphology.The origin of bat flight is still not fully understood due to an uninformative fossil record but, from the perspective of a functional transition, it is widely hypothesized that bats evolved from gliding an

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Traumatic lumbar hernias, when should I operate? A case report

Traumatic lumbar hernias are a rare subset of abdominal wall hernias encountered following blunt trauma to the abdomen.These are more commonly being found due to the increased use of advanced imaging.Three cases of traumatic lumbar hernias were identified at our institution from 2021 to 2022, one of which underwent delayed repair.The second case re

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