Volume 24, Issue 102, March - April, 2020

Possible effect of high origin and retrocaval course of testicular artery on the target organ: A case report and functional implication hypothesis

Javad Mohajer Ansari¹, Parisa Ramhormozi¹, Amir Johari Moghadam¹, Kamran Hamzei¹, Ronak Shabani^1♦

¹Department of Anatomical Sciences, School of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

^♦Corresponding author
Department of Anatomical Sciences, School of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Email: shabani.r@iums.ac.ir

ABSTRACT

Testicular arteries are the main blood supplier for testes. Knowing the anatomy, relation and especially variations of them is critical for surgical procedures such as varicocelectomy and kidney transplantation. Most of the case reports of anatomical variations focus on morphological features, embryological background and in some cases following clinical problems but the effect of anatomical variations on the physiological characteristics of the target organ have been ignored. What we are trying to emphasize is that introducing a relation between the testicular artery variations and function of the testis as a target organ.

Keywords: Anatomical variation, Testicular artery, Target organ, vascular resistance.

Medical Science, 2020, 24(102), 541-545

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