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Anatomical study of the blood supply in the human shoulder region
O de la Garza1, W Lierse, D Steiner
1Abteilung für Neuroanatomie, Universitäts-Krankenhaus Eppendorf, Hamburg, BRD.
Acta Anatomica
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
The blood supply of the shoulder muscles, ligaments and joint capsule was investigated by injection of silicone rubber into the arteria subclavia of postmortem cases. We show that the a. suprascapularis forms important anatomoses with other arteries in the region and is of greater importance for the blood supply of the rotator cuff as hitherto believed. We also describe the a. subcoracoidea as a so far unknown branch of the a. axillaris.