The human brain has two distinct pathways for processing visual information: the dorsal and ventral streams. The dorsal stream, often referred to as the “where” pathway, originates in the ...

Ghogawala and 23 colleagues at 15 sites in the United States and Canada randomized 163 patients ages 45 to 80 to either ventral or dorsal surgery for the treatment of severe CSM.

Causes and Risk Factors. During fetal development, the pancreas begins as two separate pieces of tissue that form individual ducts—the dorsal and ventral. In 90% of fetuses, these ducts fuse to ...

Patients who underwent dorsal laminoplasty also had significantly fewer overall complications (10.7%) compared to those who underwent ventral fusion (42.4%) and dorsal fusion (27.5%; P = .007).

A ventral hernia, also known as an abdominal hernia, occurs when tissue protrudes through the abdomen wall due to a gap or weakness. Hernias can develop in several places in the body, and doctors ...