High up bifurcation of brachial artery with twisting of ulnar and radial artery distally along with clubbing of fingers-a case report of a male cadaver died at around 65years

Abstract

After cleaning the area by scissors and scalpel, a high up bifurcation of brachial artery was seen around 6cm below the inferior border of teres major muscle. Then the artery was traced proximally and distally and its high up bifurcation traced above insertion of coracobrachialis muscle below two roots of median nerve. Calibre of ulnar artery is larger in diameter than the radial branch which is an visual approximation above the elbow joint but below the elbow joint both are of equal calibre. Usually ulnar artery calibre is found to be smaller than radial artery in the previous review literatures. Both the branches of the ulnar and radial artery are found to be twisted distally and superficially. Median nerve lies medial to the bifurcated branches. Among the bifurcated branches the medial branch is called brachio radial branch and lateral branch is known as brachioulnar branch.