Right aortic arch with left lung cancer: focusing on left recurrent laryngeal nerve.
We report a case of a 64-year-old Japanese man with an anomalous right aortic arch who had left lung cancer. We performed lobectomy and mediastinal lymphadenectomy, paying attention to the pathway of left recurrent laryngeal nerve. The left recurrent laryngeal nerve hooked around from the left dorsal to the right ventral part of the left ductus arteriosus, which connected the left pulmonary artery with the aortic diverticulum.
Shida
Dai
D
Department of Surgery, Ibaraki Prefectural Central Hospital and Cancer Center, Japan. shida-dis@h.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Asato
Yuji
Y
Amemiya
Ryuta
R
Suzuki
Akifumi
A
Yoshimi
Fuyo
F
D001013:Aorta, Thoracic / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D018810:Magnetic Resonance Angiography; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011859:Radiography; D012009:Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve / Q000033:anatomy & histology