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ArticleAnatomical science international2026

Trifurcation of the abdominal aorta into one common internal iliac trunk and two external iliac arteries.

Mohammadali M Shoja, R Shane Tubbs, Lewis B Schwartz

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Article in Anatomical science international, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Mohammadali M ShojaDepartment of Medical Education, Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Allopathic Medicine (NSU MD), Nova Southeastern University (NSU), 3200 South University Drive, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 33328-2018, USA. shoja.m@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9668-5558
R Shane TubbsDepartment of Neurosurgery, Tulane Center for Clinical Neurosciences, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA.
Lewis B SchwartzDepartment of Surgery, Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, Park Ridge, IL, USA.

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Abstract

This paper describes a novel and previously unreported variation of the aortoiliac arterial tree, discovered incidentally during the angiography of a patient with suspected peripheral arterial disease. The abdominal aorta trifurcated into two external iliac arteries and one common internal iliac trunk, which descended along the midline axis of the abdominal aorta before dividing into two internal iliac arteries. Variations in the aortoiliac division are exceedingly rare, with embryological evidence suggesting that this anomaly may have resulted from the convergence of the umbilical arteries along the midline during later stages of development, after the external iliac arteries had branched off.

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Aorta, AbdominalIliac ArteryAnatomic VariationHumansMaleAortaArteryLower extremityPelvis

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PMID40257709

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