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Eleni Panagouli1, Evangelos Lolis, Dionysios Venieratos

  • 1Department of Anatomy, Medical School, University of Athens, Mikras Asias Str. 75, Athens, Greece. eleni72000@yahoo.gr

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|December 21, 2010
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An adequate quantity of data on the branching points and important arterial segments of the main arteries in humans is missing. Moreover, a suitable data collection and thereby observed correlations might provide some important clues relating to angiogenesis issues. Thus, we chose to examine in sixty-two embalmed human cadavers of Hellenic origin: The level and angles of the branching points did not differ substantially from similar data, mentioned in the literature. Our results revealed that symmetry exists between the limbs and the aortic length and the branching positions of the abdominal aorta. The aortic length is negatively related to the length of both common iliac arteries. The lengths of the celiac and the brachiocephalic artery (correlated weakly with one another) presented fewer correlations, while the segment between the inferior mesenteric and the celiac artery was correlated with other segments from different locations mainly on the right side. This last distance, the aortic length, the distance between the celiac and inferior mesenteric arteries, the length of both common femoral arteries differed significantly according to gender, independently of body length and height. Our data support the view that the final position and length of the arteries might be due to the location of the corresponding viscera during angiogenesis, to the body length and height and to some (hypothetical) elongation angiogenetic factors.

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