Iliolumbar artery
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| 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 | p.621 |
| Source | Internal iliac artery |
| Vein | iliolumbar vein |
The iliolumbar artery is the first branch of the posterior trunk of the internal iliac artery.
Course
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
- 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
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Iliolumbar artery
References
- ↑ 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
- 44:10-0100 at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center
- 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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