Rare case of right accessory renal artery originating as a common trunk with the inferior mesenteric artery: A case report

Clinical Anatomy

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 530-535

  Loukas, Marios ^a,b   Aparicio, Sylvia ^a   Beck, Allon ^a   Calderon, Raul ^a   Kennedy, Maura ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b American University of the Caribbean   (Netherlands Antilles)

Author keywords

Accessory renal artery; Inferior mesenteric artery; Inferior phrenic artery; Testicular artery; Testicular vein

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTERIAL CIRCULATION; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CASE REPORT; CELIAC ARTERY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY; KIDNEY CIRCULATION; KIDNEY VEIN; MALE; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL ARTERY;

AGED; ARTERIES; DIAPHRAGM; HUMANS; MALE; MESENTERIC ARTERY, INFERIOR; RENAL ARTERY; TESTIS; VEINS;

EID: 26444529005     PISSN: 08973806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ca.20194     Document Type: Article

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