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Variations of the A. axillaris and the crural arteries in the same human individual--multiple repetitions of the mammalian plesiomorphic constellation of the arteries.
Annals of anatomy = Anatomischer Anzeiger : official organ of the Anatomische Gesellschaft - 1 Jan 2006
Claassen Horst, Schmitt Oliver, Wree Andreas
Abstract excerpt
While dissecting the body of a 75-year-old female individual we observed "abnormal" patterns of the A. axillaris and the crural arteries which resembled the mammalian plesiomorphic constellation. In the right arm a large common trunk of the A. axillaris gave origin to the A. profunda brachii, the A. circumflexa humeri posterior, the A. circumflexa scapulae and the A. thoracodorsalis. In many other mammals...
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