Illustrated Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation: Opus III: Nervous System
Ronald A. Bergman, PhD
Adel K. Afifi, MD, MS
Ryosuke Miyauchi, MD
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1, Brachial artery; 2, radial artery; 3, anterior
interosseous artery; 4, common interosseous artery; 5, ulnar artery;
6, deep median artery; 7, ulnar recurrent artery; 8, median nerve; 9,
ulnar nerve; a, superficial branch of the median nerve; b, deep
branch of the median nerve; a, superior anastomotic branch between
the median nerve and the ulnar nerve (in D, as a root to the ulnar
nerve from the median nerve); B, inferior anastomosis between the two
nerves (in A, as a root to the ulnar nerve from the median nerve. In
B and D, as a root of the ulnar with recurrent loops between the two
nerves; in C, as a single loop.)
A: Upper elbow and forearm region of the left side. This preparation also had a high origin of the radial artery from the brachial artery.
B: Upper elbow region of the left side.
C: Upper elbow region of the right side.
D: Upper elbow and forearm region of the left side.
From Gruber, W über die Verbindung des Nervus medianus mit dem Nervus ulnaris am Unterarme des Menschen und der Säugethiere. Arch. Anat. Physiol. Wissen. Med. 1870, pp 501-522.
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