University Studies 



Vol. XXII JANUARY-APRIL, 192Z, Nos. 1-2 



CONGENITAL ANOMALIES OF THE ARTERIES AND 



VEINS OF THE HUMAN BODY WITH 



BIBLIOGRAPHY 



BY C. VV. M. POYNTER 



Synopsis 



Page 



Section I. Arteries of the head and neck 4 



Section II. Arteries of the upper extremity 17 



Section III. Arteries of the thorax 24 



Section IV. Arteries of the abdomen 24 



Section V. Arteries of the pelvis 31 



Section VI. Arteries of the lower extremity. 38 



Section VII. Veins 42 



Section VIII. Vena cava superior 43 



Section IX. Veins of the head and neck 44 



Section X. Vena cava inferior 47 



Section XL General summary 50 



Section XII. A list of literature relating to the vessels studied 51 



INTRODUCTION 



As stated in my introductory study, 19 16, the primary object of 

 this work was to tabulate the vascular anomahes encountered in 

 my dissecting rooms and to furnish references relating to such 

 irregularities. I have found the literature so widely scattered and 

 so difficult to get at that it has seemed worth while to classify it 

 and arrange it in a usable form. 



The material collected has grown to be so voluminous that it 

 has been necessary to abridge as much as possible, consequently I 

 have avoided any extended descriptions of my own cases, but have 

 simply included them under their proper classification. The num- 

 ber of bodies on which my reports are based is 200 and those inter- 

 ested in statistical calculations may always use that number in 



