Research Article
Variations observed of the internal iliac artery and their possible clinical implications
Author(s): Sameer Khan* and Brian Lee Beatty
Understanding the variation of the internal iliac artery (IIA) is of interest to the medical community because vascular compromise of this region can lead to pathologies like IIA occlusive disease, and lower extremity arterial disease. Anatomic variation can lead to confusion in surgeries such as embolization and angioplasty or can lead to lingering symptoms after surgery. We studied variations in the internal iliac artery, which contains the inferior gluteal, internal pudendal, middle rectal, obturator, umbilical, superior vesical, inferior vesical, uterine, superior gluteal, lumbosacral, and iliolumbar arteries. 25 cadavers were studied and, for each individual, branching patterns of 10 arteries from both the anterior and posterior divisions of the internal iliac artery were observed. Our most interesting observations were of a muscular artery entering the psoas muscle, because it h.. Read More»
DOI:
10.37532/1308-4038.16(4).252
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