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Uncommon course of the ulnar artery through the pronator teres muscle

VYMAZALOVÁ, Kateřina, Lenka VARGOVÁ and Marek JOUKAL

Basic information

Original name

Uncommon course of the ulnar artery through the pronator teres muscle

Authors

VYMAZALOVÁ, Kateřina (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Lenka VARGOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Marek JOUKAL (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Journal of the Nepal Medical Association, Kathmandu, Nepal Medical Association, 2014, 0028-2715

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

30000 3. Medical and Health Sciences

Country of publisher

Nepal

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Impact factor

Impact factor: 0.104

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14110/14:00085547

Organization unit

Faculty of Medicine

Keywords in English

Anatomical variation; Median nerve; Pronator canal; Pronator teres muscle; Ulnar artery

Tags

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 5/1/2016 12:09, Ing. Mgr. Věra Pospíšilíková

Abstract

V originále

In this paper, we describe a very rare variant in the course of the ulnar artery that we encountered in dissecting the right upper limb of a 74-year-old man. The ulnar artery arose standardly from the brachial artery in the cubital fossa. However, its ensuing course differed from the norm. The artery entered together with the ulnar vein and median nerve into the pronator canal (between the humeral and ulnar heads of the pronator teres). Further, the ulnar artery descended classically to the ulnar side of the forearm between the flexor carpi ulnaris and flexor digitorum superficialis. Knowledge of this variation in the course of the ulnar artery may have significance in clinical practice because accumulation of anatomical structures in the pronator canal could be a predisposing factor for the compression of nerve or blood vessels.