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Fig. 1

From: Intra-arterial catheter incidentally placed in the median artery in a patient with an anatomical variation of the radial artery

Fig. 1

Incidental arterial cannulation of the median artery. An arterial catheter was placed between the flexor carpi radialis (FCR) tendon and the palmaris longus (PL) tendon, at the concordance of the running course of the median nerve. The superficial radial artery, an anatomical variation of the radial artery, was dominant to the radial artery in our patient (red line). Therefore, the pulse was difficult to palpate in the distal forearm where the radial artery usually runs (circle)

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