Some morphological studies on the kidney of sheeps with special technique to it's arterial segmentation

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The study was carried out on (30) kidneys of fifteen adult clinically healthy sheep.

-The gross study ofkidneys, latex casts and corrosive casts of renal arteries were performed as well as corrosive casts of ureter.

The study showed that the normal sheep kidney had a bean-shaped appearance covered by transparent capsule.

the casts preparation mapped the division of renal arteries, within the renal hilus which divided into dorsal and ventral artery, each of them I were bifurcated into cranial and caudal artery, the cranial Artery divided into three inter lobar arteries, while the caudal artery divided into four inter lobar artery, each one bifurcated into arcuate arteries from which multiple inter-Lobular arteries were detached.