Insight into Vietnamese women’s internal iliac artery anatomy

This study aims to assess the characteristics of internal iliac artery and examine correlations between other anatomic structures in pelvis. A cross-sectional was conducted period October 2019 May 2020. Eighteen samples left right arteries were taken from formaldehyde-embalmed female cadavers at Ho Chi Minh City University Medicine Pharmacy Department Anatomy. The showed that origins most located by lumbar vertebrae 4-5. mean distance origin sacral promontory 33.95 ± 3.35 mm (on left), 31.70 4.64 right). always had two big branches – anterior posterior. third branch an ilio-lumbar artery, often seen 43.33%. diameters those comparable on both sides, similar name a little larger diameter than right. has large posterior branches; some cases, it called artery. artery’s length its initial division is for sides. suggestive surgeons find after determining promontory.