Arterial supply of the femoral head. A combined angiographic and histological study.

摘要: The findings in a correlated angiographic and histological study of eighty-one selected femoral heads obtained from cadavera ranging thirteen to eighty years age are reported. Three groups arteries were demonstrated: upper lower capital ligamental arteries. Anastomoses the formed superoinferior arch fifty-five specimens; visualized twenty-eight superoligamental arches, twelve, superoinferoligamental fourteen. There was no correlation between occurrence arches or race, but there significant presence female sex, being found thirty-three only two forty-eight male cadavera. The studies site attachment ligamentum teres revealed every specimen. However, approximately two-thirds them, these 200 micrometers diameter less did not fill with radiopaque material; other third vessels ranged 201 511 injection medium. These larger anastomose arterial network within head contribute its blood supply.