Arterial variants are an important consideration in the care of individuals undergoing surgery or invasive diagnostic procedures. Although there are numerous reports that describe arterial variants in localized body regions, it is unknown if some individuals have a proclivity for the development of arterial variants. The current study set out to determine if some individuals do, in fact, have a proclivity for vascular variants and further, if one arterial variant can predict the presence of another variant. To accomplish this, whole-body dissection was performed on 18 anatomical body donors. In each donor, the entire arterial tree was followed and documented. The findings from this study suggest that arterial variants are extremely common and the presence of numerous variants is frequent.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bu.edu/oai:open.bu.edu:2144/36595 |
| Date | 13 June 2019 |
| Creators | Marco, Elizabeth Katherine |
| Contributors | Whitney, Elizabeth, MacNeil, Maryann |
| Source Sets | Boston University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
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