Volume : IX, Issue : V, May - 2020

A Rare Variation of Axillary Artery and its Clinical significance

Sahni C, Jp Jessy, Singh S

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Knowledge regarding the axillary vasculature is important for the planning of axillary nerve block, axillary lymph node resection and radical mastectomy. The presence of variation in the axillary vasculature may result in the postoperative complications such as bleeding. In the present study, a rare vascular variation reported and is of foremost importance for clinicians, anesthetist, surgeons, radiologist and anatomists. During routine dissection of an approximately 60-year-old female cadaver for the undergraduate medical students at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, we came across a variation in anching pattern of left axillary artery. An alar thoracic artery arose from the 3rd part of axillary artery in the cadaver which was supplying axillary fat and a lymph node. Along with this alar thoracic artery, a common arterial stump in 3rd part of axillary artery was giving one posterior circumflex humeral artery and three subscapular arterial anches. No other neurovascular variations were observed in the in axillary region.

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A RARE VARIATION OF AXILLARY ARTERY AND ITS CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE, SAHNI C, JP JESSY, SINGH S GLOBAL JOURNAL FOR RESEARCH ANALYSIS : Volume-9 | Issue-5 | May-2020

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