The brachial artery is the chief artery supplying blood to the arm, forearm, and hand. It supplies the tissues of the upper limb with oxygen and nutrients. Two terminal brachial artery branches, the ...

The axillary artery is a large blood vessel that carries oxygenated blood to various parts of the upper body. These parts of the body include the thorax, upper limb, and axilla (more commonly known as ...

Pulmonary embolism is often associated with deep vein thrombosis of the lower limbs. We present a case of a patient with an atypical cause of pulmonary embolism, the identification of which modified ...

The charts of inpatients who underwent venous duplex scanning of the upper torso veins from January 2002 to December 2003 at the University of Southern California University Hospital, an urban ...

DESPITE the remarkably favorable influence of antibacterial therapy, combined with surgical drainage when indicated, in most cases of pyogenic sepsis, septicemia remains a chief cause of death. In the ...

These veins assist in draining oxygen-depleted blood from the hand and forearm. In this process, the blood flows to the brachial vein and eventually makes its way back to the lungs for resupply with ...

A 79-year-old man presented after a week of pleuritic-type chest pain, dyspnea and a swollen, painful left arm. His past medical history included benign prostatic hypertrophy, vitiligo, hearing loss ...

I never thought much of the axillae – or armpits – before becoming a doctor. They were ticklish, they sweated, I sometimes got round to shaving them. During my first year as a medical student, however ...