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Surgical Implications of the Arterial Anatomy around the Knee: A Cadaveric Pictorial Essay

We completed an anatomic cadaver study in order to examine the arterial supply around the knee and to create useful images regarding the arterial surgical anatomy around the knee. A total of four unmatched fresh-frozen cadaveric knees were utilized. There was no medical history of osteoporosis, bony...

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Autores principales: Fyllos, Apostolos, Raoulis, Vasileios, Mitrousias, Vasileios, Banios, Konstantinos, Chytas, Dimitrios, Zibis, Aristeidis
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8621235/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34829351
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics11112004
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author Fyllos, Apostolos
Raoulis, Vasileios
Mitrousias, Vasileios
Banios, Konstantinos
Chytas, Dimitrios
Zibis, Aristeidis
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description We completed an anatomic cadaver study in order to examine the arterial supply around the knee and to create useful images regarding the arterial surgical anatomy around the knee. A total of four unmatched fresh-frozen cadaveric knees were utilized. There was no medical history of osteoporosis, bony or soft-tissue injury or surgery in any of the knees. The femoral arteries were cannulated with a large catheter at the proximal aspect of the cadavers, and liquid latex in different colours was injected. Τhe specimens were then placed into a bath of 8.0% sodium hypochlorite to complete debridement of the soft tissues to various degrees. The specimens were checked every 15 to 30 min until adequate debridement occurred, and photographs were taken during each stage of this process. Sodium hypochlorite, among others, chemically debrides the vessel walls leaving the casts of the vessel lumens filled with solid coloured latex in order to illustrate the vascular supply pattern to the structures of interest. Knowing the probability of where these arteries should be located adds to the knowledge that surgeons have at their disposal when performing procedures involving arthroscopy, arthroplasty and osteotomies, which can help decrease unnecessary damage to the arteries.
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spelling pubmed-86212352021-11-27 Surgical Implications of the Arterial Anatomy around the Knee: A Cadaveric Pictorial Essay Fyllos, Apostolos Raoulis, Vasileios Mitrousias, Vasileios Banios, Konstantinos Chytas, Dimitrios Zibis, Aristeidis Diagnostics (Basel) Interesting Images We completed an anatomic cadaver study in order to examine the arterial supply around the knee and to create useful images regarding the arterial surgical anatomy around the knee. A total of four unmatched fresh-frozen cadaveric knees were utilized. There was no medical history of osteoporosis, bony or soft-tissue injury or surgery in any of the knees. The femoral arteries were cannulated with a large catheter at the proximal aspect of the cadavers, and liquid latex in different colours was injected. Τhe specimens were then placed into a bath of 8.0% sodium hypochlorite to complete debridement of the soft tissues to various degrees. The specimens were checked every 15 to 30 min until adequate debridement occurred, and photographs were taken during each stage of this process. Sodium hypochlorite, among others, chemically debrides the vessel walls leaving the casts of the vessel lumens filled with solid coloured latex in order to illustrate the vascular supply pattern to the structures of interest. Knowing the probability of where these arteries should be located adds to the knowledge that surgeons have at their disposal when performing procedures involving arthroscopy, arthroplasty and osteotomies, which can help decrease unnecessary damage to the arteries. MDPI 2021-10-28 /pmc/articles/PMC8621235/ /pubmed/34829351 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics11112004 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Surgical Implications of the Arterial Anatomy around the Knee: A Cadaveric Pictorial Essay
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8621235/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics11112004
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