A rare combined variation of the coeliac trunk, renal and testicular vasculature.
- Author:
Renate Elke POTGIETER
1
;
Adam Michael TAYLOR
;
Quenton WESSELS
Author Information
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords: Coeliacomesenteric trunk; Coeliac trunk; Hepato-gastric trunk; Pancreatico-duodenal artery; Retro-aortic left renal vein
- MeSH: Adult; Arteries; Cadaver; Humans; Male; Mesenteric Artery, Superior; Renal Veins
- From:Anatomy & Cell Biology 2018;51(1):62-65
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
- Abstract: The authors report a rare variation of the coeliac trunk, renal and testicular vasculature in a 27-year-old male cadaver. In the present case, the coeliac trunk and superior mesenteric artery was replaced by a modified coeliacomesenteric trunk formed by hepato-gastric and superior mesenteric arteries. Here the hepato-gastric artery or trunk contributed towards the total hepatic inflow as well as a gastro-duodenal artery. A separate right gastric artery and an additional superior pancreatico-duodenal artery was also found in addition with a retro-aortic left renal vein and a bilateral double renal arterial supply. The aforementioned coeliac trunk variation, to our knowledge, has never been reported before and this variation combined with the renal vasculature requires careful surgical consideration.
