Multiple Variations in a Single Cadaver: Its Clinical Implications

Abstract

Anomalous blood vessels are always interesting from a purely scientific point of view, especially as they so often shed light on obscure problems of phylogeny and ontogeny. Variations in the vascular supply is of clinical importance to the general and vascular surgeons and to those who specialize in either urology or gynecology. During routine dissection multiple variations in the abdominal aorta and its branches were observed. Variations of origin and course of arteries of different organs are not only of anatomical and embryological interest but also of practical and clinical importance when these variations can be the agents of pathological conditions, or in surgery when knowledge of them can result in more accurate treatment. With the development of techniques of arteriography, the knowledge of arteries and of their variations has acquired a special importance for correct interpretation of the different, and sometimes very complicated roentgenographic pictures.