Vol 122, No 3 (2017)
Original Article

A case of total bilateral congenital ulnar artery absence detected with CT angiography

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  • Emanuele Cabras,
  • Stefano Congia,
  • Alessandro Palmas,
  • Giuseppe Dessì,
  • Antonio Capone
Emanuele Cabras
Orthopaedic and Traumatology Division, Brotzu Hospital, Cagliari, Italy
Stefano Congia
Department of Orthopaedics, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
Alessandro Palmas
Department of Orthopaedics, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
Giuseppe Dessì
Orthopaedic and Traumatology Division, Brotzu Hospital, Cagliari, Italy
Antonio Capone
Department of Orthopaedics, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy

Published 2018-04-09

Keywords

  • Ulnar artery absence,
  • hand injury

How to Cite

Cabras, E., Congia, S., Palmas, A., Dessì, G., & Capone, A. (2018). A case of total bilateral congenital ulnar artery absence detected with CT angiography. Italian Journal of Anatomy and Embryology, 122(3), 179–184. Retrieved from https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/ijae/article/view/1604
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Abstract

Here we report a case of bilateral ulnar artery absence discovered during the treatment of a deep wound in the forearm. Variations and anomalies in the anatomy of the upper limb arteries are frequent, but the one that we found, to our knowledge, has never been described in other clinical cases.

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