Volume : VII, Issue : III, March - 2018

VARIANT COURSE AND BRANCHING PATTERN OF THE BRACHIAL ARTERY - A CASE REPORT.

Dr. Shubhangi Yadav

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          Brachial artery is the main artery of the arm. Normally achial artery begins at the lower border of teres major muscle as continuation of axillary artery. It runs downwards and laterally in the front of arm and crosses the elbow joint. It ends at the level of the neck of radius in the cubital fossa by dividing in to its two terminal anches, the radial and ulnar arteries.                                                         

      A variant course and anching pattern of the left achial artery was observed during routine dissection of a 55 year old male cadaver in department of anatomy, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, U.P. An unusual anch originated from the medial side of the achial artery of the left arm at the level of lower third of the arm. In the forearm, it passed below the tendon of palmaris longus and passed below the flexor retinaculum. Later it united with the  anches of radial artery to form superficial and deep palmar arches.

        Variations of the arterial patterns in the upper-limb have been the subject of many anatomical studies due to there high incidence.

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Dr.Shubhangi Yadav, VARIANT COURSE AND BRANCHING PATTERN OF THE BRACHIAL ARTERY‾A CASE REPORT., GLOBAL JOURNAL FOR RESEARCH ANALYSIS : VOLUME-7, ISSUE-3, MARCH-2018

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