Architecture and structure of canine veins with special reference to confluences

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E A Stone, G J Stewart

Abstract

The occurrence of cell-infiltrated intimal lesions at the confluence of many small tributaries with canine jugular and femoral veins suggested that these areas (confluences) might 1) differ structurally from the rest of the receiving vein and 2) serve as initiation sites for thrombi. To explore these possibilities, the number of tributaries was determined by careful blunt dissection, and the architecture of confluences was studied by light and scanning and transmission electron microscopy. In addition to confluences formed by a named tributary (omobrachial), canine jugular veins averaged 11 confluences formed with small (0.2 to 2.5 mm diameter) unnamed tributaries that had not been previously described. Femoral veins averaged eight confluences of which four were formed with small unnamed tributaries. Double-leafed valves were found at 90% of jugular and 76% of femoral vein confluences. Previously such valves were described only at the confluence of superficial with deep leg veins. Corrosion casts of iliac, saphenous, azygous, costocervical, and maxillary veins as well as cranial and caudal vena cava demonstrated a similar pattern of tributaries and valves. The three structures (receiving vein, tributary, valves) that formed the...Continue Reading

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Oct 31, 2006·The Veterinary Journal·Olga GómezJosé Terrado
Nov 9, 2001·Journal of Vascular Surgery·A J Comerota
Jul 3, 2002·Veterinary Surgery : VS·Elizabeth Arnold StoneMichael R Metcalf

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