Superficial upper limb vasculature and its surgical implications.
Any kind of anatomical variation whether encountered during cadaveric dissections or routine clinical or surgical procedures needs to be reported and taken into account. This can be quite helpful in planning surgeries accordingly and avoid disastrous complications. During routine cadaveric dissection, authors found a superficial course of arteries of the arm as well as the forearm, unilaterally in one cadaver. In this case, there were two brachial arteries - superficial and deep. Superficial brachial artery terminated into superficial radial and superficial ulnar artery. Deep brachial artery was trifurcated into common interosseous, medial and lateral artery branches. Authors have also discussed the developmental anomaly, which could have led to the observed morphological variation. Superficial vessels can provide large size pedicles for raising flaps for local reconstructive surgeries in the region of axilla, elbow, wrist or hand, or other regions.
Department of Anatomy, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.
Richa
R
Gupta
Department of Anatomy, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.
Anjali
A
Aggarwal
Department of Anatomy, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.
Tulika
T
Gupta
Department of Anatomy, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.
Harjeet
H
Kaur
Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.
Sunil
S
Gaba
Department of Anatomy, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.
Daisy
D
Sahni
Artery; brachial; radial; superficial; ulnar