Anatomy Atlases: Illustrated Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation: Opus II: Cardiovascular System: Arteries: Pelvis: Inferior Gluteal Artery

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Illustrated Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation: Opus II: Cardiovascular System: Arteries: Pelvis

Inferior Gluteal Artery

Ronald A. Bergman, PhD
Adel K. Afifi, MD, MS
Ryosuke Miyauchi, MD
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This artery may form a common trunk with the superior gluteal (Jaschtschinski, 25%; Lipshutz, 43%). It has been reported doubled and it may be joined to the obturator.

The ischiadic (sciatic) artery, the embryonic axis artery, "arises" from the inferior gluteal artery. It may persist as the primary artery of the thigh and continue into the leg as the popliteal. The ischiadic (sciatic) artery (a. comitans n. ischiadic) is usually a long, thin vessel which is normally the arterial blood supply to the sciatic nerve. It arised from the inferior gluteal artery and enters the nerve immediately below the piriformis muscle. The ischiadic artery was the embryonic important axial artery of the lower limb arising originally from the umbilical artery. The artery may persist in the adult as a large vessel continuous with the popliteal artery.

from Henle, J. after Dubreuil, J.M. (1847).

Inferior and Superior Gluteal

Image 68, Image 243 Image 486, Image 487

Ischiadic

Image 100, Image 399

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