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Uncommon branching pattern of the hepatic arteries in a living donor: a case report and brief literature review
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Abstract
Numerous variations of the hepatic arteries are common in surgical patients. We present a 35-year-old woman who was admitted to our department in order to assess possibility of becoming living donor. Preoperative computed tomography scan revealed anomalous branching pattern of the hepatic arteries. In this case right posterior sectoral artery has been given off by the greater pancreatic artery, left hepatic artery has been replaced by the artery arising from the left gastric artery and double segment 4 branches have been observed. To the best of our knowledge, this pattern has not been described in the literature, yet.
Abstract
Numerous variations of the hepatic arteries are common in surgical patients. We present a 35-year-old woman who was admitted to our department in order to assess possibility of becoming living donor. Preoperative computed tomography scan revealed anomalous branching pattern of the hepatic arteries. In this case right posterior sectoral artery has been given off by the greater pancreatic artery, left hepatic artery has been replaced by the artery arising from the left gastric artery and double segment 4 branches have been observed. To the best of our knowledge, this pattern has not been described in the literature, yet.
Keywords
hepatic artery, variations, living donor liver transplantation, multidetector computed tomography angiography
About this articleTitle
Uncommon branching pattern of the hepatic arteries in a living donor: a case report and brief literature review
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Article type
Case report
Pages
125-129
Published online
2015-09-08
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DOI
10.5603/FM.a2015.0070
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Bibliographic record
Folia Morphol 2016;75(1):125-129.
Keywords
hepatic artery
variations
living donor liver transplantation
multidetector computed tomography angiography
Authors
M. Morawski
R. Stankiewicz
B. Ciszek
R. Pacho
W. Patkowski
M. Krawczyk
