Anterior accessory saphenous vein
Anterior accessory saphenous vein | |
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Details | |
Drains to | Great saphenous vein |
Identifiers | |
Latin | vena saphena magna accessoria anterior |
TA98 | A12.3.11.007 |
TA2 | 5068 |
FMA | 44320 |
Anatomical terminology |
The anterior accessory saphenous vein is a special anterior tributary of the great saphenous vein (GSV), draining the antero-lateral face of the thigh.
It becomes very often insufficient, causing important varicose veins with an autonomous course and often is the only insufficient vein present on a patient.
Structure
Usually it joins GSV very near the
The vein can be identified near the saphenous ostium by a typical ultrasonographic image the so-called
When the
Clinical relevance
When insufficient, usually it tries to drain in the superior peroneal perforator at the external face of the knee, but it can reach the leg at its lower 1/3 and, drain in the lower peroneal perforator.
When treated properly the patient can be considered cured from his disease because this vein is just a collateral one, and most of the time is the only sick vein over all the superficial venous system.
The importance of this vein comes from the frequent confusion between it and the GSV made at ultrasonographic examination. This confusion can allow to a medical error and finishes on a stripping of the real GSV. So its presence is described as a reason for stripping postoperative recurrences.[1]
Image gallery
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AASV at sapheno-femoral junction the "Mickey mouse sign"
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Varicose Anterior accessory saphenous vein
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Varicose Anterior accessory saphenous vein at the knee
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Superficial veins oflower limb.Superficial dissection.Anterior view.
See also
References
- ^ a b c "The saphenofemoral junction – Accessory saphenous veins". Archived from the original on July 25, 2013. Retrieved August 2, 2013.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-60692-485-3.