Table 3.

Frequency of the brachioradial artery given by selected authors.

Author, year of study	Sample (No. of limbs)	Frequency
		Origin from axillary artery	Origin from brachial artery	All cases of the brachioradial artery
Quain, 1844 [36]	429	30% of brachioradial arteries	70% of brachioradial arteries	12.4% of total amount of upper limbs
Adachi, 1928 [7]	410	2.2% (9/410) (31% of brachioradial arteries)	4.9% (20/410) (69% of brachioradial arteries)	7% of all limbs
McCormack et al., 1953 [10]	750	2.13% of total / 11.5 % of variations	12.14 % of total / 65.5 % of variations	14.27% of all specimens – 77% of all variations of upper limb arteries
Wathersby, 1956 [14]	408	-	-	15.6%
Keen, 1961 [21]	284	-	-	5.9%
Karlsson and Niechajev, 1982 [8]	82 patients with demonstrated anatomy of the whole upper extremity	1.22% of all patients (12.5% of brachioradial arteries)	8.54% of all patients (12.5% of brachioradial arteries)	97.5% of the cases in angiographic studies
Uglietta and Kadir, 1989 [37]	100 angiographic studies of the upper limb	1% of all cases / 12.5% of brachioradial arteries	7% of all cases / 87.5% of brachioradial arteries	8% of all examined cases
Rodríguez-Baeza et al., 1995 [22]	150	0.67% of total / 14.28% of brachioradial arteries	4% of total / 85.72% of brachioradial arteries	4.67%
Rodríguez-Niedenführ et al., 2001 [12]	384	3.1% of total (23% of brachioradial arteries)	3.1% of total (23% of brachioradial arteries)	13.8% of total amount of upper limbs and 20.3% out of 192 cadavers
Nasr, 2012 [11]	100	1% of total (1 out of 8 brachioradial arteries)	7% of total	8% of total amount of upper limbs
Our present findings	120	1.67% of all upper limbs and 18% of brachioradial arteries	7.5% limbs subjected to autopsy; 82% of brachioradial arteries	9.2% of total amount of upper limbs