epigastric vein

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veins serving the anterior walls of the abdomen

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There were varicose veins in both lower limbs, more marked on the right, and tortuous distended superficial inferior and superior epigastric veins on the trunk The direction of flow in the latter was cephalad.

Examination of the abdominal wall revealed varicosity of the superficial inferior epigastric veins arising at the groin, with cephalad flow.

Varicose veins: look before you strip--the occluded inferior vena cava and other lurking pathologies

The patient did not have a significant caput medusae, and only a few small varices could be seen anastomosing with slightly distended inferior epigastric veins.

(These collaterals would then be called a para-umbilical vein.) A caput medusae forms around the umbilicus, then draining into the systemic circulation via the inferior epigastric veins. This is only one of several portosystemic shunts that may develop in portal hypertension.

Cruveilhier-Baumgarten syndrome--a caveat for surgeons

Egg deposition in testicular tissue may not require any anatomical variation since the posterior vein to the spermatic chord (cremasteric vein) drains into epigastric veins. Similar to what can be observed for isolated varicocele that may represent a salvage pathway for portal hypertension in patients with other unilateral portosystemic shunts in the triple testicular blood drainage [3], such variations may also explain asymmetric infection load in patients with S.mansoni-related portal hypertension.

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