Vol 64, No 4 (2005)
Case report
Published online: 2005-09-20
Arterial, neural and muscular variations in the upper limb
Folia Morphol 2005;64(4):347-352.
Abstract
During our routine dissection studies we observed arterial, neural and muscular
variations in the upper limbs of an adult male cadaver. In this case we observed
the superficial brachial artery origination from the third part of the axillary artery,
communications between the musculocutaneous and median nerves, variant
formation of the brachial plexus, origination of the profunda brachii artery
from the posterior circumflex humeral artery and supernumerary tendons of the
abductor pollicis longus muscle. We think that such variations should be kept in
mind during surgical and diagnostic procedures.
Keywords: superficial brachial arteryaxillary arterymusculocutaneous nervecommunicationmedian nerveprofunda brachii artery
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