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Unilateral occurrence of a chondroepitrochlearis muscle
Levent Sarikcioglu1, Fatos Belgin Yildirim, Shoji Chiba
1Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey. sarikcioglu@akdeniz.edu.tr
Clinical Anatomy (New York, N.Y.)
|March 26, 2004
Abstract:
An abnormal muscle slip was encountered during routine dissection studies of a male cadaver. According to its origin, attachment and innervation, the abnormal slip was identified a chondroepitrochlearis muscle. Arterial and nervous supply were from the lateral thoracic artery and the medial pectoral nerve, respectively. Furthermore, no axillary arch muscle was observed. In addition, an abnormality in the attachment of the pectoralis major muscle was observed.