An Inferior Mesenteric Artery Arising From The Left Common Iliac Artery

Although anatomical variations in abdominal vascular branching are a common phenomenon, alternations inIMA are rather rare. We report a variation found during a dissection of an embalmed male cadaver of CaucasianHellenic origin, where we observed an IMA having as a point of origin the left common iliac artery, 0.4 cm afterthe AA bifurcation in the level between L3 and L4 vertebra. Ignorance of this variant may cause serious implicationsduring vascular and abdominal surgery