title: [Study on vascular morphology of integument tissues of the channel area in the leg].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To observe the distribution of the blood vessels in the integument tissue of the channel area of legs.
  
  
  METHODS
  The integument tissue of the lower limbs in the 12 cadavers were dissected with macro-and micro-dissection, radiographical technique of systemic artery and technique of image pattern analysis to observe and analyze the origins, branches and anastomoses in the integument tissues along the channels of legs.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The distributional density of the blood vessels in the integument tissues of legs along the channel area of the three-yin meridians of the foot, the Gallbladder Meridian, and the Urinary Bladder Meridian was higher than that in the other parts. They formed an obvious nutrient vascular chain on the arteriogram. The distributional density in the channel area of the Stomach Meridian was not obviously increased and the obvious nutrient vascular chain could not be seen.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  An obvious nutrient vascular chain is formed in the integument tissue along the channel area of legs except the Stomach Meridian.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anatomy, Wenzhou Medical College, Zhejiang 325035, China. wylxf@wzmc.net
authors.forename: Xin-fa
authors.initials: XF
authors.lastname: Lou
authors.forename: Jin
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mei
authors.forename: Song-he
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Quan
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Shi
authors.forename: Rui-feng
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Mao-lin
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Tang
mesh_terms: D001808:Blood Vessels / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D006801:Humans; D007866:Leg / Q000098:blood supply*; D016740:Meridians