Table 1.
Several previous researches investigated in the anatomy of medial sural artery and its perforating branches.
| Author | Number of Specimen | Preforators |
Origin from joint line (cm) | distance from perforator branch to posterior leg midline (cm) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | Mean | ||||
| Cavadas [2] | 10 | 1–4 | 2.2 | 8.5–19 | |
| Hallock [3] | 10 | 2–7 | 4.6 ± 1.8 | ||
| Thione [4] | 20 | 38/20 | 1.9 | 7–18 | |
| Shim [11] | 40 | The 1st perforators beneath popliteal crease: 9.68 ± 1.08 | Perforators lies along the line linking midspot of popliteal crease to medial malleolus | ||
| Okamoto [5] | 44 | 1–5 | 5–17.5 | 1.5–4.5 cm | |
| Torres [6] | 12 | 2–4 | 2.9 | 10.7–14 | |
| Kao [12] | 26 | 1–5 | 2.7 | 6–18 | 0.5–7 cm |
| Altaf [7] | 20 | 1–5 | 2 | 10.2–15.9 | |
| Wong [8] | 10 | 3–8 | 4.4 | 6–22.5 | 2 ± 0.5 cm |
| Otani [9] | 47 | 1–5 | 2.4 | 5–17.5 | 0.5–4.5 cm |
| Ours | 62 | 1–5 | 3.35 | 5.1–18.73 | 0.39–6.7 cm |