Case Report During routine dissection of a male cadaver, of unknown age and ethnicity, the left brachial artery was found to be tortuous. It was observed that the superficial brachial artery was arising from the third part of the axillary artery proximal to the origin of the posterior and anterior circumflex humeral arteries (Figures 1, 2). On following it in the arm, it was observed that at th...

INTRODUCTION The sural/radial nerve amplitude ratio (SRAR) is the quotient of the sensory nerve action potential (SNAP) amplitudes (Amp) of the sural and the superficial radial nerve. It has been hypothesized that this ratio can be used for the detection of early axonal loss, because the sural SNAP amplitude will decrease first, thereby also decreasing the SRAR value. OBJECTIVES To determine ...

Abstract Background This case report documents a rare variation of persistent median artery. Normally transient vessel present during embryologic development the limbs, artery typically regresses by eighth week life as radial and ulnar arteries predominate distal vascular supply hand. In subset adult population, this remains which most often ends in carpal tunnel or hand without significant dep...

Neural fibrolipomatous hamartoma is a rare benign tumour commonly involving the median nerve. Other less frequently involved nerves include the ulnar, radial, brachial plexus, superficial peroneal nerve, inferior calcaneal nerve and median plantar nerve. Involvement of sural nerve has not been reported in the available literature so far. A three-year-old female child presented with a painless s...

Radial artery is one of the smaller terminal branches of brachial artery which originates at the level of neck of radius. During routine dissection, a lot of variations in the arterial pattern of the upper limb were encountered which ignited our curiosity to review literature regarding the normal anatomy and variations of radial artery. There is marked difference in the arrangement of these art...

The purposes of this study were to evaluate the methods for examining the superficial radial nerve and to compare velocities and amplitudes of responses based on electrode shape and placement and site of stimulation. We selected 51 subjects with a mean age of 37 years from a healthy group. Twenty additional subjects with a mean age of 28 were also examined. Nerve conduction was done by stimulat...

[This corrects the article on p. 557 in vol. 31.].

Background: Robert Wartenberg, a European-American neurologist, was born in 1887 and died 1956. His description of radial sensory nerve compression at the forearm is memorialized as Wartenberg’s syndrome. He recognized that involuntary abduction little finger could be caused by ulnar palsy - finding often called sign Syndrome signs are reviewed, brief biography presented. Objective: To review D...

Brachialis muscle lies beneath the biceps brachii and arises from anteromedial and anterolateral surfaces of the lower half of the shaft of humerus. A few fibers take origin from lower part of spiral groove and medial intermuscular septum also. The broad muscle covers the anterior part of elbow joint and converges to form a flat tendon which is inserted into the anterior surface of coronoid pro...