title: [Accessory renal arteries in human fetuses].
abstract: Using conventional anatomical methods, renal arteries of 140 human fetuses were studied. It was found (21.1%) that the accessory renal arteries occurred in a three-fold manner: 1. as single arteries (19.2%), 2. as double arteries (2.1%) and 3. as triplex arteries (0.7%). More often they originated from the right part of the circumference of the abdominal aorta, mainly in the female fetuses. These arteries penetrated the following segments of the kidney: the inferior (12.9%), the superior (2.3%), the anterior inferior (2.8%), the posterior (2.1%) and the anterior superior (1.5%). They crossed the renal pelvis more often in front (12.2%) than from behind of it (5%). The frequency of the occurrence of the accessory arteries depends not from the age of the fetus.
authors.affiliation: Anatomisches Institut, Medizinische Akademie, Bydgoszcz, Polen.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gościcka
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Szpinda
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kochan
mesh_terms: D001012:Aorta, Abdominal / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000196:embryology; D005260:Female; D005333:Fetus; D005865:Gestational Age; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012077:Renal Artery / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000196:embryology*
vernacular_title: Akzessorische Nierenarterien bei menschlichen Feten.