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Abnormal Vascular Pattern In The Upper Limb: Original Image
Ragıba ZAĞYAPAN, MD,a Can PELİN, MD,a Nüket MAS, MDa
aDepartment of Anatomy, Başkent University Faculty of Medicine, ANKARA
Variations in the arterial pattern of the upper limb are not only important for anatomists and surgeons, but for radiologists and cardiologists as well. In the present case, during dissection of a male cadaver, only a single common trunk was observed arising from the third part of the axillary artery on the right side. The common trunk was later divided into 2 branches, 1 giving rise to the anterior and posterior circumflex humeral and deep brachial arteries, and the other to the circumflex scapular and thoracodorsal arteries. The anatomic relationships of the branches with the adjacent structures also were different from the usual configuration. An unusual occurrence of the median nerve and its relation with the brachial artery also was observed, in addition to the variations in the branching pattern of the axillary artery. Such variations are important not only for invasive procedures, such as ligation of injured arteries or angiographic studies of brachial vessels, but also to avoid brachial plexus lesions during surgery.Keywords: Upper extremity; axillary arteryTurkiye Klinikleri J Med Sci 2007, 27:807-809
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