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Uterus and uterine blood vessel anatomic characteristics

Uterus and uterine blood vessel anatomic characteristics

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Background: In Vietnam, the rate of absolute uterine factor infertility is increasing, but no study has been published on uterine transplantation. The present study was designed to comprehensively observe the canine uterine anatomy and to examine the possibility of using a living canine donor for uterine transplantation training and further resear...

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... the internal pudendal artery, with an average angle of 48.7°±3.2° (Table 1). This angle would make vessel dissection and anastomosis during graft implantation more challenging for novice surgeons. ...
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... diameters of the uterine artery and vein were 1-2 mm. The distance from the vesical artery bifurcation to the site where the uterine vessel ran close to the body of the uterus was 1.3 cm on average (range, 1.0-1.5 cm) ( Table 1). The uterine artery split into an artery branch that fed the ovary, which ran along the fallopian tube, and an artery branch that fed the vagina. ...

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