%0 Journal Article
%T THE ANATOMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE THIRD HEAD OF BICEPS BRANCHII MUSCLE IN A COLOMBIAN POPULATION
%A Rinc¨®n
%A Fred
%A Rodr¨ªguez
%A Zayda I.
%A S¨¢nchez
%A Alberto
%A Le¨®n
%A Alfredo
%A Gonz¨¢lez
%A Luis F.
%J Revista chilena de anatom¨ªa
%D 2002
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%R 10.4067/S0716-98682002000200014
%X summary: we report the appearance of variations of the biceps brachii muscle and describe their anatomic characteristics in our population. a prospective evaluation was conducted on cadavers at the morgue of the "nueva granada" military university (umng) - school of medicine in santafe de bogota, colombia. thirty-two arms of 16 cadavers were included. anatomic description was achieved by measurements of length, width, thickness, insertions, relations, innervating branches and blood supply. a third head for the biceps brachii muscle was found in 6 arms (37.5%, n=16). it appeared most frequently in the right arm (31.25%, n=16) and found bilaterally in 2(12.5%, n=16) cases; arising from the lower third the humeral shaft at 12.82 ¡À 0.59 cms. from the external humeral condyle and with a total length of 12.9 ¡À 0.29 cms. these results provide an anatomic description of the characteristics of this variation in the population studied and also is the first report of this accessory head among colombians
%K human anatomy
%K biceps brachii muscle
%K accessory head of biceps brachii muscle
%K anatomical variations.
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