title: Uncommon branching pattern with a prominent articular ramus of the inferior gluteal artery in a Korean male cadaver.
abstract: We found a rare case of uncommon branching pattern with a prominent articular ramus of the inferior gluteal artery in a 39-year-old Korean male cadaver, whose cause of death was rectal carcinoma. The inferior gluteal artery branches off downwards at a time, the muscular rami ran in parallel with one another, and the articular ramus gave another muscular branch and has an anastomosis with the medial circumflex femoral artery. Knowledge of vascular variations in the gluteal region may give useful information of versatile flaps for reconstruction and the prominent articular ramus found in this case is good enough to consider the existence of the anastomosis between the medial circumflex femoral artery and the inferior gluteal artery as normal, not rudimentary.
authors.affiliation: Jeju National University School of Medicine, Jeju, Korea.
authors.forename: Heung Kee
authors.initials: HK
authors.lastname: Eun
authors.affiliation: Jeju National University School of Medicine, Jeju, Korea.
authors.forename: Hee Sup
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Chung
authors.affiliation: Department of Anatomy, Jeju National University School of Medicine, Jeju, Korea.
authors.forename: Sang Pil
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Yoon
keywords: Anastomosis; Buttocks; Cadaver; Rami muscularis; Variation