Variation in arterial supply of human vermiform appendix
Keywords:
Caecum, Appendix, Appendicular artery, Arterial supply, Variation, IleumAbstract
Precise knowledge of vascular variation and planning of conducting surgical and radiological procedures is important during appendectomy. During the routine medical undergraduate educational dissection of 63 year old male cadaver we found appendicular artery (AA) a branch of the inferior division of the ileocolic artery (ICA). The AA passed in front of the terminal part of the ileum, and entered the mesoappendix of the vermiform appendix. It runs near the free margin of the mesoappendix and ends in branches which supplied the appendix. The reminding of this type of variation is also important while performing the surgeries or dissections.
References
Bruce J, Walmsley R, Ross JA. In: Manual of Surgical Anatomy. Edinburgh, London: E & S Livingstone; 1964:377.
Koster H, Weintrob M. The blood supply of appendix. Arch Surg. 1928;17:577-86.
Umesh Kulkarni K, Deepali Kulkarni U. Variations in arterial supply of vermiform appendix. International Journal of Anatomical Variations 2011;4:52-4.
Hosmani Veeresh, Halasagi S. S., Shakuntala R. Pai, G. F. Mavishetter. A Study of arterial supply of vermiform appendix in humans. Journal of Evolution of Medical and Dental Sciences. 2012 November;1(5):810.
Barry JA. Morri’s Anatomy 12th ed. Newyork: McGraw-Hill Book Company; 1966: 744.
Anson BJ, McVey CB. Surgical Anatomy. 5th ed. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company; 1971: 594.
Hollinshed WH. Untitled. Anatomy for Surgeons. 1956;2:492-5.
Solanke TF. The blood supply of Vermiform Appendix in Nigerians. J Ant 1968;102: 353-62.
Pitynski K, Skawina A, Gorezyca J, Kitlinski M, Kitlinski Z. Arterial vascularization of the Vermiform appendix in human fetus. Folia Morphol (Warsz) 1992;51(2):159-64.
Luzsa G. X-ray Anatomy of the vascular system London. Butterworth and Co. Ltd. 1974:237.
Bergmann RA, Thompson SA, Afifi AK, Saadeh FA. Compendium of Human Anatomic Variation. 1st ed. Munich: Urban Schwarzenberg; 1988: 406.
Volker S, Bernhard D, Kerstin O, Andreas P. Appendix and Cecum Embryology, Anatomy and surgical applications. The surgical clinics of North America. 2000 Feb;80(1):301-2.
Romanes GJ. Cunninghams’s Text book of Anatomy. 12th ed. Wallan street Oxford: Oxford University press; 1981: 926-927.
Michael RBK, Norman SW. Surgery of Anus, Rectum and Colon. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company; 1993:11.
Jeremiah CH, Neil RB. Abdomen and Pelvis. Section 7 In: Susan S, Harold E, Jeremiah CH, David J, Andrew W, Patricia C, eds. Gray’s Anatomy. 39th ed. Edinburgh: Elsevier Livingstone; 2005: 1187-1190.
Subhadradevi V. Variations in Blood Supply of Human Vermiform Appendix. Anat Sci. 1988;10(2):55-62.
