title: An anomalous case of the left gastric artery, the splenic artery and hepato-mesenteric trunk independently arising from the abdominal aorta.
abstract: This report describes a rare case of an arterial anomaly in the celiaco-mesenteric region, encountered in a Japanese female cadaver for dissection at the gross anatomy laboratory of Kurume University School of Medicine in 2003. The usual celiac trunk was not identified, and the left gastric artery, the splenic artery and the hepato-mesenteric trunk independently arose from the abdominal aorta. Moreover, the hepatic artery arising from the hepato-mesenteric trunk ran behind the portal vein. The classification for this type of arterial anomaly is a Type II' of Morita's classification and Type II of Higashi and Hirai's classification, not belong to the Adachi's.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anatomy, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume 830-0011, Japan. saga@med.kurume-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Tsuyoshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Saga
authors.forename: Takeshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hirao
authors.forename: Sadaharu
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kitashima
authors.forename: Koh-Ichi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Watanabe
authors.forename: Mariko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nohno
authors.forename: Yoshio
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Araki
authors.forename: Seiji
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kobayashi
authors.forename: Koh-Ichi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yamaki
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001012:Aorta, Abdominal / Q000002:abnormalities*; D005260:Female; D006499:Hepatic Artery / Q000002:abnormalities*; D006801:Humans; D013157:Splenic Artery / Q000002:abnormalities*; D013270:Stomach / Q000098:blood supply*