Open AccessDouble profunda brachii artery
Author(s) -
Gavishiddappa A. Hadimani,
Jyoti V Hadimani,
Ishwar B. Bagoji,
Shardha Bai Rathod,
B M Bannur
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
blde university journal of health sciences/blde university journal of health sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2468-838X
pISSN - 2456-1975
DOI - 10.4103/2468-838x.196109
Subject(s) - medicine , artery , axillary artery , radial artery , brachial artery , ulnar artery , anatomy , cardiology , blood pressure
Brachial artery (BA) is a continuation of the axillary artery at the lower border of teres major. In the cubital fossa, BA divides into radial artery and ulnar artery as terminal branches. Large branch given from the BA in the upper part is profunda brachii artery. In the present case, we noticed double profunda brachii that arises from the BA. They are profunda brachii artery 1 and profunda brachii artery 2. Profunda brachii artery 1 arises in the proximal part of the BA and profunda brachii artery 2 arises distal to the profunda brachii artery 1. Both the arteries run inferolaterally in the spiral groove along with radial nerve. Variations of profunda brachii artery are important during harvesting of the lateral arm flaps and may lead to inadvertent injury during percutaneous arterial catheterization or injection of drugs