| Artery: Iliolumbar artery | |
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| The veins of the right half of the male pelvis. (Iliolumbar artery not labeled, but Iliolumbar vein visible at center right.) | |
| Latin | arteria iliolumbalis |
| Gray's | subject #155 621 |
| Source | Internal iliac artery |
| Vein | iliolumbar vein |
The iliolumbar artery is the first branch of the posterior trunk of the internal iliac artery.
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Course [edit]
The iliolumbar artery turns upward behind the obturator nerve and the external iliac artery and vein, to the medial border of the psoas major, behind which it divides into:
Anastomoses [edit]
- 1. Last lumbar→iliolumbar
- 2. Lateral sacral↔lateral sacral
- 3. Middle sacral→lateral sacral
- 4. Superior hemorrhoidal→middle hemorrhoidal
- 5. Medial femoral circumflex→inferior gluteal
- 6. Medial femoral circumflex↔obturator
- 7. Lateral femoral circumflex→superior gluteal
- 8. Deep iliac circumflex→superior gluteal
- 9. Deep iliac circumflex→external iliac
- 10. Last lumbar→superior gluteal
- 11. Last lumbar→deep iliac circumflex
- 12. Iliolumbar→deep iliac circumflex.[1]
Additional Images [edit]
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Iliolumbar artery
References [edit]
- ^ CHAIT, ARNOLD; ARNOLD MOLTZ and JAMES H. NELSON JR. (February 1968). "THE COLLATERAL ARTERIAL CIRCULATION IN THE PELVIS AN ANGIOGRAPHIC STUDY". AJR 102 (2): 392–400.
External links [edit]
- SUNY Labs 44:10-0100
- SUNY Radiology Pelvis:15PelArt
- SUNY Figs 43:07-02
- pelvis at The Anatomy Lesson by Wesley Norman (Georgetown University) (pelvicarteries)
- Illustration at mrcog-wiseowl.com
This article incorporates text from a public domain edition of Gray's Anatomy.
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