While it has been argued that axillary temperature reflects the temperature of the axillary artery, the temperature in the axilla is also influenced by skin blood flow. When the arm is adducted ...
Studies of patients with PMR and giant-cell arteritis indicate that PMR could be a vasculitis limited to the subclavian or axillary arteries, or a synovitis or perisynovitis of the shoulders and hips.
An 86-year-old woman underwent an aortic valve replacement with cardiopulmonary bypass through a right axillary artery Dacron conduit. At the end of the procedure, the Dacron conduit was amputated ...