ON THE FORMATION OF THE SUPERFICIAL VOLAR ARCH IN CHINESE / 解剖学报

ABSTRACT

One hundred upper limbs of Chinese children of about ten years old weredissected for the study of their arterial branches forming the superficialvolar arch.The arches were divided into four types1)radial arterial type,2)radial-ulnar arterial type,3)median-ulnar arterial type and 4)archlesstype.The first type has the highest percentage of 46%,the second one comesnext with 34%.The archless cases occupy 19%,and only in 1% was thearch formed by branches of the median and ulnar arteries.