Clumping Of Branches of Axillary Artery-A Case Study

The increasing use of invasive diagnostic and interventional procedures in cardiovascular diseases makes it important to study the vascular variations of upper limb.Awareness of the possible variations will reduce the risk of complications like bleeding during surgical procedures..Axillary artery is the continuation of subclavian artery, at the outer border of the first rib and from the lower border of teres major it becomes the brachial artery.During its course it is divided into 3 parts by pectoralis minor muscle.Usually 6 branches arise from different parts of the artery .The present study was carried out in 30 cadavers (10 females and 20males)of the department of anatomy v.s.s medical college, burla and all the branches of axillary artery were studied.There are many reports showing variations in the branching pattern of axillary artery.However, in our study some unusual variations were found.