background: previous anatomic and radiological studies have described the relationship of the clavicle to major neurovascular structures in healthy subjects. we were curious about this relationship in patients with a clavicle fracture and if it is different from non-fractured clavicles.   methods: we retrospectively identified all patients with a clavicle fracture between july 2001 and october ...

Introduction: Blood supply to the arm and forearm is conveyed by brachial artery its branches, radial ulnar artery. Variations in these arteries are being increasingly reported many studies. Most of variations observed mostly course branching pattern have been accounted be due developmental defect, from varied causes. 
 Materials Methods: In present study dissection was done on fifty seven...

OBJECTIVE To describe the patterns of formation, level of beginning, variations of course, and relation of the median nerve within the arm of human cadavers. METHODS Sixty upper limbs of 20 male and 10 female adult human cadavers were used in this study. The cadavers were obtained from the Anatomy Department, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and the study ...

The third part of the axillary artery unilaterally divides into two major arterial stems, named according to their localization as deep brachial artery and superficial brachial artery (brachial artery). The deep brachial artery gives off the posterior circumflex humeral artery, anterior circumflex humeral artery, subscapular artery, and profunda brachii artery. It continues its course in the ar...

To determine the clinical consequences of reocclusion of an infarct-related artery after reperfusion therapy, we evaluated 810 patients with acute myocardial infarction. Patients were admitted into four sequential studies with similar entry criteria in which patency of the infarct-related artery was assessed by coronary arteriography 90 minutes after onset of thrombolytic therapy. Successful re...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Stroke severity in cases of hyperacute carotid ischemic stroke may be related to site of arterial occlusion. We evaluated the relationships between National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) scores and findings on intra-arterial digital subtraction angiograms (IA-DSA) of patients with ischemic stroke within 6 hr of stroke onset. METHODS A total of 43 consecutive...