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The study has been conducted on 40 species of mammals included in different taxonomic orders: 10 carnivores (felines and canides), 13 primates and 17 herbivores (artiodactyles, perisodactyles and proboscideans). Domestic, experimental and wild animals have been included in the sample. The purpose of the study is to offer new data regarding morphometric aspects of the epithelium of the cornea of mammals. We also aim to establish the relationships and differences between the different epithelia studied and to determine the morphometric characteristics which best define the epithelium of the different species under study. The results obtained have demonstrated the existence of correlations between thicknesses, number of cellular layers and number of the epithelial cells in the different groups. It has also been established that the variants in thickness and number of layers define and characterize the epithelia. Finally, the study reveals that morphometric characteristics of the epithelium of primates and carnivores have more similarities than those of herbivores.

The transperitoneal approach is used systematically for an arterial or a venous splenorenal anastomosis. However, this approach is associated with high morbidity and mortality rates. Because of our anatomical and surgical findings we have used the retroperitoneal approach to the splenic hilus by means of the lumbar region. The first splenorenal arterial anastomosis with this approach was done in 1972. The approach has proved to be less aggressive since it avoids the danger of damaging the pancreas, it is a more direct approach to the splenic vessels and it provides better exposure and facilitates the anastomosis. In addition, the loss or infection of ascitic fluid in cirrhotic patients is avoided with this approach, as well as intraoperative hemorrhaging caused by the great surplus circulation. There has been neither mortality nor complications in the 13 cases of arterial and venous splenorenal anastomoses that we have done with this method.