Anatomy & Cell Biology

Table 3

Incidence of number of suprarenal arteries on each side in various studies

Authors (year)	Population/region	No. and type of specimens	No of arteriesa)
			Superior suprarenal arteries		Middle suprarenal arteries		Inferior suprarenal arteries
			R	L	R	L	R	L
Miekoś (1979) [43]	Poland	220 human adrenal glands	30 (13.63%)		1 (94%)	2–3 (6%)	2–11 (0.9%–5%)
Bianchi and Ferrari (1991) [4]	Argentina	50 fetuses	-	-	1 (48%) ≥2 (52%)	1 (53%) ≥2 (47%)	-	-
Pityński et al. (1998) [3]	Poland	40 human fetuses	1 (10%) 2 (5%) 3 (5%) 4 (12.5%) ≥5 (67.5%)	1 (7.5%) 2 (7.5%) 3 (12.5%) 4 (10%) ≥5 (62.5%)	1 (57.5%) ≥2 (42.5%)	1 (67.5%) ≥2 (32.5%)	1 (30%) 2 (25%) ≥3 (45%)	1 (22.5%) 2 (27.5%) ≥3 (50%)
Manso and DiDio (2000) [12]	Brazil	30 pairs of suprarenal glands (n=60)	3 (1.66%) 4 (18.33%) ≥5 (30%)	3 (1.66%) 4 (21.66%) ≥5 (26.66%)	1 (41.66%) 2 (6.66%)	1 (38.33%) ≥2 (10%)	1 (18.33%) 2 (23.33%) ≥3 (8.33%)	1 (18.33%) 2 (28.33%) ≥3 (3.33%)
Bordei et al. (2003) [38]	Romania	120 cases	-		-		1 (75.83%) ≥3 (24.17%)
Reddy et al. (2014) [23]	South Indian	50 fetal specimens and 25 adult specimens	-	-	1 (30.66%) ≥2 (3.99%) Absent (1.33%)	1 (30.66%) ≥2 (2.99%) Absent (2.66%)	1 (82.66%) 2 (4%) Absent (1.33%)	1 (92%) 2 (4%) Absent (1.33%)
Ahmed et al. (2015) [20]	South Indian	25 adult and 50 fetal cadavers	-	-	1 (88.75%) ≥2 (6.25%) Absent (5%)		-	-
Greeff et al. (2019) [27]	South African	50 fetuses	1 (16%) 2 (32%) 3 (20%) 4 (20%) ≥5 (12%) Absent (2%)	1 (14%) 2 (24%) 3 (28%) 4 (16%) ≥5 (16%) Absent (2%)	1 (48%) ≥2 (32%) Absent (20%)	1 (44%) ≥2 (16%) Absent (40%)	1 (82%) 2 (16%) 3 (2%)	1 (86%) 2 (12%) 3 (2%)

R, right; L, left. a)Number of arteries (in % age of specimens). According to Standring 2016, superior suprarenal artery is 4 to 5 in number, middle suprarenal artery is 1 in number and inferior suprarenal artery is 1 to 2 in number.

Anat Cell Biol 2022;55:28~39 https://doi.org/10.5115/acb.21.211