Arterial supply to the hypogastric and presacral nerves.
The hypogastric nerves take an arterial supply from the internal iliac artery either directly or from one of its main branches close to its origin from the parent trunk. Sometimes the supply is from the lower end of the common iliac artery. In half the cases examined the presacral nerve takes an arterial supply from the aorta at its bifurcation.
D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007001:Hypogastric Plexus / Q000098:blood supply*; D007083:Iliac Artery / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D007223:Infant; D012039:Regional Blood Flow; D012447:Sacrum / Q000294:innervation*; D013564:Sympathetic Nervous System / Q000098:blood supply*