Advances in Anatomy
Volume 2014 (2014), Article ID 687368, 2 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/687368

Erratum

Erratum to “Variation of the Lateral Sacral Artery in relation to Sciatic Neuropathy”

Waseem Al Talalwah,¹ Shorok Ali Al Dorazi,² and Roger Soames³

¹Department of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, P.O. Box 3660, Riyadh 11481, Saudi Arabia
²Directorate of Prevention and Control of Healthcare Associated Infection, Eastern Province, MOH, P.O. Box 411, Saihat 31972, Saudi Arabia
³Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification, College of Art, Science and Engineering, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 5EH, UK

Received 4 December 2014; Accepted 8 December 2014; Published 21 December 2014

Copyright © 2014 Waseem Al Talalwah et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

In the abstract “The current study of 342 specimens from 171 cadavers (79 male, 92 female)” is corrected as “The current study of 342 specimens from 171 cadavers (92 male, 79 female).”

As a result “the lateral sacral artery is congenital absence in 0.3%.” is corrected as “lateral sacral artery is congenital absence in 0.4%.”

Tables 1 and 2 of the published paper are corrected as the following tables.

Table 1: Origin of the lateral sacral artery.

Origin
Incidence¹

Anterior trunk of the internal iliac artery
1.0%

Dorsomedial aspect of the internal iliac artery
3.7%

Posterior trunk of the internal iliac artery
79.1%

Superior gluteal artery
16.8%

Inferior gluteal artery
5.4%

Internal pudendal artery
0.3%

Persistent sciatic artery
8.8%

Congenital absence
0.4%

The lateral sacral artery commonly arose from the posterior trunk of the internal iliac artery. Occasionally, it arose from different arteries. Due to coexistence of double and triple as well as quadruple lateral sacral artery, its incidence becomes more than 100%. It is a congenital absence in 0.4%. Observations based on 342 specimens (45 specimens have been excluded due to missing data).

Table 2: The incidence of the lateral sacral arteries number observed in series studies and current study.

Number\study
Tonkoff  10
Naguib et al.  12
Sadler  13
Sharpey et al.  14
Poynter  15
Current study

Single
0%
30%
55%
26%
50%
77.2%

Double
98%
48%
45%
61.5%
42.5%
19.8%

Triple
2%
9%
0%
11%
7.5%
2.3%

Quadruple
0%

0%
1.5%

0.3%

The lateral sacral artery commonly arose from the internal iliac artery in different numbers but was found to be absent in one specimen (0.4%). Observations based on 342 specimens (45 specimens have been excluded due to missing data).