title: Bilateral asymmetry of the highly bifurcated brachial artery variation.
abstract: High bifurcation of the brachial artery seems to be a common variation, which can occur in many different forms, and some of them might be rather rare. We report an unusual case of bilateral high bifurcation of the brachial artery in a male cadaver. On the right arm, high origin of the ulnar artery as superficial ulnar artery was observed. The brachial artery continued and divided at the level of the elbow into radial and common interosseous artery. On the left arm, a high bifurcation of the common interosseous artery occurred, while the rest of the brachial artery continued and at the level of the elbow bifurcated into radial and superficial ulnar artery. In both arms, the common interosseous artery followed the branching pattern of the normal ulnar artery. The so formed superficial ulnar arteries gave each four common palmar digital arteries. This case is being reported for the bilaterally different variational anatomy of the upper limb arteries.
authors: Department of Anatomy, Medical School, University of Athens, Greece; eleni72000@yahoo.gr.
authors: Eleni
authors: E
authors: Panagouli
authors: Sophia
authors: S
authors: Anagnostopoulou
authors: Dionysios
authors: D
authors: Venieratos
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001132:Arm / Q000098:blood supply / Q000473:pathology; D001916:Brachial Artery / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000473:pathology*; D002102:Cadaver; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D054079:Vascular Malformations / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology