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Correspondence. Superficial brachial artery continuing as the common interosseous artery

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 1997

TOSHIOI NAKATANI
Affiliation:
Department of Anatomy II, School of Medicine, Kanazawa University, 13-1 Takaramachi, Kanazawa 920, Japan
SHIGENORI TANAKA
Affiliation:
Department of Anatomy II, School of Medicine, Kanazawa University, 13-1 Takaramachi, Kanazawa 920, Japan
SHIGEKI MIZUKAMI
Affiliation:
College of Nursing, Fukui Prefectural University, 97-21-3 Oohatamachi, Fukui 910-11, Japan
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Abstract

The superficial artery of the arm with a course anterior to the median nerve is found at an incidence of ≈13%, and it continues as the radial artery twice as frequently than as the ulnar artery; less frequently it continues as both arteries (Bergman et al. 1988). We report a rare case in which the superficial brachial artery continued as the common interosseous artery only and the deep brachial artery continued as the radial and superficial ulnar arteries in the cubital fossa.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1997

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