title: Nine renal arteries in a Japanese female cadaver.
abstract: A rare case of multiple renal arteries was found in a 78-year-old female cadaver undergoing routine dissection. The characteristic findings in the cadaver included the presence of four right and four left renal arteries with one common trunk (a total of nine renal arteries). This variation may represent an immature form of complicated development of the renal arteries.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anatomy, Tokyo Medical University, 6-1-1 Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan. shuichi@tokyo-med.ac.jp
authors.forename: Shuichi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hirai
authors.forename: Satoru
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Honma
authors.forename: Munekazu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Naito
authors.forename: Hayato
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Terayama
authors.forename: Shinichi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kawata
authors.forename: Masahiro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Itoh
mesh_terms: D002102:Cadaver; D004210:Dissection; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D012077:Renal Artery / Q000002:abnormalities*