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Type of Article: Original Research

Year: 2016 | Volume 4 | Issue 3 | Page No. 2809-2812

Date of Publication: 30-09-2016

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.16965/ijar.2016.338

UNUSUAL ANATOMICAL VARIATION IN THE BRANCHING PATTERN OF SPLENIC ARTERY

Geeta Anasuya. D *¹, Jones Eben Raj ², Sheela Grace Jeevamani ³.

^*1 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Anatomy, Karpagam Faculty of Medical Sciences and Research, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.

² Tutor, Dept. of Anatomy, Karpagam Faculty of Medical Sciences and Research, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.

³ Professor & HOD, Dept. of Anatomy, Karpagam Faculty of Medical Sciences and Research , Coimbatore, India.

Address: Dr Geeta Anasuya MD, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Anatomy, Karpagam Faculty of Medical Sciences and Research, Coimbatore- 32, Tamil Nadu, India.
E-Mail: geetagee1@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

Splenic artery is the largest branch of coeliac trunk and is tortuous in its course. In routine dissection of abdomen for undergraduate students in KFMSR, among 32 cadavers, variations in the branching pattern of splenic artery were noticed in one cadaver. Splenic artery before its normal termination, it gave superior and inferior polar arteries. Apart from these arteries, an accessory splenic artery was seen arising from left gastro epiploic artery. It entered the spleen from its lateral end. The knowledge of these variations is clinically important for surgeons to prevent bleeding during any surgical or radiological interventional procedures.
Key words:  Splenic artery, Superior polar artery, Inferior polar artery, Accessory splenic artery.

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Geeta Anasuya. D, Jones Eben Raj, Sheela Grace Jeevamani. AUNUSUAL ANATOMICAL VARIATION IN THE BRANCHING PATTERN OF SPLENIC ARTERY. Int J Anat Res 2016;4(3):2809-2812. DOI: 10.16965/ijar.2016.338