Indian Journal of Clinical Anatomy and Physiology 2020;7(1):124–126 Content available at: iponlinejournal.com Indian Journal of Clinical Anatomy and Physiology Journal homepage: www.innovativepublication.com Case Report Ulnar artery: A case report of high origin and superficial cours Veena V Kulkarni 1, *, Rakesh Kumar 1 , Subhash K Deshpande 1 1 Dept. of Anatomy, SDM Medical College Sciences & Hospital, Dharwad, Karnataka, India ARTICLE INFO Article history: Received 05-10-2019 Accepted 13-02-2020 Available online 14-03-2020 Keywords: Ulnar artery Upper limb artery Brachial artery ABSTRACT Blood vessel variety of the upper appendage are normal and these can be of impressive enthusiasm to orthopedic surgeons, radiologists and anatomists. During routine dissection for college understudies of the right upper limb in a male cadaver, a variation starting point of ulnar artery from brachial artery was taken note. The brachial artery ending in the cubital fossa by partitioning into radial and ulnar or interosseous supply routes. The outspread artery had taken typical course and branches. Different divisions was the basic interosseous artery, anterior and posterior ulnar recurrent arteries demonstrated ordinary course. The irregular high source of ulnar artery route from the brachial artery was seen which was taking root from medial side of the brachial artery higher than the radial artery, running on the shallow muscles and going underneath the Palmaris longus tendon and intersection the tendon from lateral to medial side. At that point its running shallow to the muscles which were taking cause from the regular flexor source from the humerus and it was secured by the profound belt of the forearm arm, at that point it crosses the flexor retinaculum and partook in the formation of the superficial palmar arch. During its course, supply route didn’t give any branch. © 2020 Published by Innovative Publication. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) 1. Introduction On the off chance that we put pressure to the horizontal side against the shaft of the humerus we can feel the pulsation of the brachial artery next to the average side of biceps and furthermore superiorly, in the discouraged zone back to coracobrachialis muscle. In the distal part pulse can be felt posteromedial to the tendon of biceps brachi then it dives deep to the bicipital aponeurosis. The brachial course lies average to the humerus in its upper part, however then lies straightforwardly before the hard shaft. The nearness of the supply route to a bone against which it very well may be compacted makes this the helpful apparatus to quantify the pulse. The median nerve is firmly identified with the brachial artery all through its course in the arm. It lies at first parallel to the artery, then in centre of the arm the median nerve crosses the brachial artery by going before it and plummets average to the artery till the cubital fossa. * Corresponding author. E-mail address: rakesh.anat@gmail.com (V. V. Kulkarni). The ulnar artery is one of the bigger terminal part of the brachial artery. It starts 1 cm distal to the flexion wrinkle of the elbow and degrees to the average side of the lower forarm till its halfway among elbow and wrist. During its course in the lower forearm the artery route lies superficially on brachialis and afterward profound to pronator teres, flexor carpi radialis, palmaris longus and flexor digitorum superficialis. Ulnar artery at that point lies on flexor digitorum profundus muscle, between flexor carpi ulnaris and flexor digitorum superficialis muscle and is likewise secured by the skin, shallow and profound fascia. The median nerve structure the average connection with the supply route in the upper piece of the arm, and then crosses the artery and goes sidelong to artery. The ulnar nerve lies average to the artery in its lower part, which supplies the nerve all through its length. The palmar cutaneous part of the ulnar nerve running along the ulnar supply route to arrive at the hand. The artery crosses the flexor retinaculum of the hand, lies sidelong to the ulnar nerve and pisiform bone, a t that point it enter the hand. 1 https://doi.org/10.18231/j.ijcap.2020.025 2394-2118/© 2020 Innovative Publication, All rights reserved. 124