This branch ascends between the internal oblique muscle and the transversus abdominis muscle, supplying them, and anastomosing with the lumbar arteries and inferior epigastric artery.
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The "'lateral umbilical fold "'overlies the inferior epigastric artery ( a branch of the external iliac artery ) and its accompanying veins.
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It is used in cases where there is " retention of undigested food with epigastric and abdominal distension, foul belching, acid regurgitation and loss of appetite ".
34.
Collins, a captain in the Troy Fire Department, went to the Samaritan Hospital emergency room on March 17, 1991, suffering from chicken pox and epigastric pain.
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It consists of a small, hardened portion of the exoskeleton located on the underside of the abdomen, in front of the epigastric furrow and between the epigastric plates.
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It consists of a small, hardened portion of the exoskeleton located on the underside of the abdomen, in front of the epigastric furrow and between the epigastric plates.
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It finally divides into numerous branches, which anastomose, above the umbilicus, with the superior epigastric branch of the internal thoracic artery and with the lower intercostal arteries.
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These can include : intermittent epigastric pain after meals accompanied by nausea, diarrhea, anorexia, no fever and loss of weight and, generally, a tender abdomen.
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In contrast, 40 % to 45 % of persons have a superficial circumflex iliac artery and superficial inferior epigastric artery that arise from separate origins [ 1, 2 ].
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It transmits the great saphenous vein and other smaller vessels including the superficial epigastric artery and superficial external pudendal artery, as well as the femoral branch of the genitofemoral nerve.
