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Inferior Gluteal Artery

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Abstract

This artery may form a common trunk with the superior gluteal (Jaschtschinski, 25%; Lipshutz, 43%). It has been reported doubled and it may be joined to the obturator. The ischiadic (sciatic) artery, the embryonic axis artery, "arises" from the inferior gluteal artery. It may persist as the primary artery of the thigh and continue into the leg as the popliteal. The ischiadic (sciatic) artery (a. comitans n. ischiadic) is usually a long, thin vessel which is normally the arterial blood supply to the sciatic nerve.

This artery may form a common trunk with the superior gluteal (Jaschtschinski, 25%; Lipshutz, 43%). It has been reported doubled and it may be joined to the obturator.

The ischiadic (sciatic) artery, the embryonic axis artery, "arises" from the inferior gluteal artery. It may persist as the primary artery of the thigh and continue into the leg as the popliteal. The ischiadic (sciatic) artery (a. comitans n. ischiadic) is usually a long, thin vessel which is normally the arterial blood supply to the sciatic nerve. It arised from the inferior gluteal artery and enters the nerve immediately below the piriformis muscle. The ischiadic artery was the embryonic important axial artery of the lower limb arising originally from the umbilical artery. The artery may persist in the adult as a large vessel continuous with the popliteal artery.

from Henle, J. after Dubreuil, J.M. (1847).

Inferior and Superior Gluteal

Image of variation in origin of the parietal branches of interal iliac artery — Ischiadic
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Image of origin of the variable branches of internal iliac artery — Ischiadic
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Image of the inferior gluteal artery as a continuation of the lateral sacral artery — Ischiadic
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Ischiadic
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Image of persistent ischiatic artery — Anatomy Atlases. Image hosted by the site it comes from. Open the original page.

Riferimenti dell’opera originale

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Anatomical classification

Systems:: Cardiovascular system

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Italian translation of «Inferior Gluteal Artery — Illustrated Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation: Opus I: Muscular System» by Ronald A. Bergman, Adel K. Afifi, Ryosuke Miyauchi. Source: https://www.anatomyatlases.org/AnatomicVariants/Cardiovascular/Text/Arteries/GlutealInferior.shtml Original work distributed under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.it). Translation by Redazione AIVA. Changes from the original: Traduzione italiana del testo originale inglese, che resta consultabile nella versione inglese di questa pagina. Il contenuto è stato riorganizzato nel formato scheda del portale (sintesi, testo, riferimenti) senza modificarne le affermazioni. Le figure non sono state copiate: sono collegate alla pagina d’origine. This publication is not approved or endorsed by the authors of the original work.

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