Volume : 6, Issue : 5, May - 2017

Superficial Palmar Arch: a study of morphological Variation patterns.

Rajiv Ranjan, Dr A K Dubey, Dr Amit Jain

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;<b style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:14.0pt;&#10;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Aims and Objective</span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-align: justify; font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">: The aim of this study was to analyse the superficial palmar arch (SPA) and its variations and also to study its association with other variations of upper limb like high-up bifurcation of achial artery, presence of median artery, absence of palmaris longus etc.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:&#10;justify;line-height:normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:14.0pt;&#10;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Materials and methods</span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">: 70 preserved cadavers were dissected during routine curricular dissection at RDGMC,Ujjain and RIMS, Ranchi; relevant anomaly of SPA and its association with any other anomaly was photographed and analysed<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:&#10;justify;line-height:normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:14.0pt;&#10;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Result and discussion</span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">: Complete superficial palmar arch (SPA) variations were observed in 111 cadaveric hands; whereas there were 29 cadaveric hand with the variations incomplete superficial palmar arch (SPA). Also its association with other co-existing variation was observed, photographed and analysed.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:&#10;justify;line-height:normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:14.0pt;&#10;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Conclusion</span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">: Present study is clearly indicates the presence of collateral communication of radial artery in majority (78.3%) with ulnar artery or in some cases persistent median artery as a component of SPA. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:&#10;normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">&nbsp;</span></p>