Salih Murat AKKIN, Mehmet Ali İKİDAĞ, Mehmet Ali CÜCE, Şinasi ÖZKILIÇ, Erdal UYSAL

A rare anastomotic artery between right and left common iliac arteries: iliac anastomotic artery

Congenital abdominal aortoiliac arterial abnormalities are not as common as aortic arch anomalies. Incidentally observedabdominal arterial and venous variations and anomalies are increasingly encountered due to widespread use of multislice CTfor abdominal and vascular diseases. Knowledge of these variations or pathologies is crucial, especially before surgery torepair occlusive diseases, aneurysms and transplant surgeries, in order to reduce complications such as vascular injury andbleeding. Here we present an aortoiliac variation observed during abdominal CT examination of a 27-year-old female. Thisvariation appeared as an anomalous arterial structure coursing obliquely and transversely between the right and left proximalcommon iliac arteries and binding them just below the bifurcation. Physicians should also be familiar with such a case,which appears as a triangular aortoiliac arterial window and which has only been reported in the old anatomical literature.

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