Injection-Corrosion-Lavage: Techniques for Study and Description of Vascular Anatomy in the Hand

Abstract

The venous anatomy of the human hand has not been accurately described. Two main reasons for this deficiency in our knowledge are apparent: technical difficulties involved with dissection and imaging of the vessels, and the seemingly limitless number of topographic patterns in this field. This paper introduces firstly, a method for injection and corrosion of hand specimens, and secondly, a routine for describing the venous anatomy, primarily based on their function, and only secondarily on their position or topography.

Key Words:

• anatomy
• human
• veins
• hand
• methylmethacrylates
• injections