Zeitschrift für klinische Fallberichte

Absence of Subscapular Artery as Anatomical Variation in Branching Pattern of Auxillary Artery

Abstract

Bahiru Tenaw

During routine dissection for gross anatomy practical teaching by unknown age of adult male cadaver for the undergraduate medical students at department of human anatomy, college of medicine and health sciences, university of Gondar, Ethiopia we had encountered anatomical variation in branching pattern of right axillary artery. The third part of right axillary artery gave rise to a common trunk that divides into anterior and posterior circumflex humeral arteries. This anatomical variation in the branching pattern of axillary artery is very crucial for surgical procedures that surgeons perform an intervention or a diagnostic procedure in cardiovascular diseases.