Median Basilic Vein and Median Cephalic Vein: a Rare Variant

Abstract

Median cubital vein is a large communicating superficial vein of the upper limb. It shunts blood from the cephalic vein to basilic vein in the cubital fossa. As median cubital vein is widely opted for blood withdrawal or transfusion anatomical variations of this vein create lot of confusion. During routine dissection one of the variations was identified i.e. absence of a median cubital vein and presence of median cephalic vein and median basilic vein arising from the median vein of forearm. Anatomical variations of the median cubital vein have great importance in surgical and clinical interventions.