Anatomy & Cell Biology

Table 4

Comparison of incidence of digital arteries to the thumb with other studies

Studies (sample size)	Type of cadaveric study	Thumb arteries (%)
Studies (sample size)	Type of cadaveric study	RPDA	UPDA	RDDA	UDDA
Earley [7] (n=20)	Intra arterial radio opaque dye with two-dimensional arterio graph & latex injection with dissection	100	100	70	70
Ikeda et al. [12] (n=220)	Intra arterial radio-opaque dye with three-dimensional arterio graph	99	100	64	80
Ramírez and Gonzalez [15] (n=30)	Intra arterial synthetic resin with dissection	100	100	93	100
Present study (n=55)	Dissection	96	100	11	7

RPDA, radial palmar digital artery; UPDA, ulnar palmar digital artery; RDDA, radial dorsal digital artery; UDDA ulnar dorsal digital artery.