A rare axillary artery branching variation: case report in a Brazilian cadaver
Variação rara na ramificação da artéria axilar: relato de caso em cadáver brasileiro
Gabriel Vitório de Araújo Suassuna; Clara Medeiros Midena; Wigínio Gabriel de Lira Bandeira; Mauro Bezerra Montello; Bento João da Graça Azevedo Abreu; Judney Cley Cavalcante
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O conhecimento da vascularização é essencial para o planejamento cirúrgico e a realização de procedimentos intervencionistas na região axilar. A artéria axilar origina ramos que suprem o ombro, a parede torácica e a escápula, continuando-se então como artéria braquial, que fornece ramos para o braço e o cotovelo. Pequenas variações nesses ramos são comuns. No entanto, a dissecção de um membro superior direito fixado em formol revelou uma artéria axilar que se bifurcava em uma artéria braquial superficial, sem ramos, e em um tronco posterior, responsável por todos os ramos que tipicamente se originam da terceira porção da artéria axilar e da artéria braquial, incluindo a artéria subescapular, as artérias circunflexas umerais, a artéria braquial profunda e as artérias colaterais ulnares. Esse arranjo vascular raro não havia sido descrito anteriormente na literatura brasileira. O conhecimento dessas variações pode prevenir erros diagnósticos e lesões durante cirurgias.
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Submitted date:
05/09/2025
Accepted date:
08/08/2025
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