title: Uncommon branching pattern of the hepatic arteries in a living donor: a case report and brief literature review.
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this case right posterior sectoral artery has been given off by the greater pancreatic artery, left hepatic artery has been replaced by the artery arising from the left gastric artery and double segment 4 branches have been observed.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.
authors.affiliation: Chair and Department of General, Transplant and Liver Surgery, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland Department of Descriptive and Clinical Anatomy, Centre of Biostructure Research, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland. marcin.b.morawski@gmail.com.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Morawski
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Stankiewicz
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ciszek
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Pacho
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Patkowski
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Krawczyk
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002445:Celiac Artery; D005260:Female; D006499:Hepatic Artery; D006801:Humans; D016031:Liver Transplantation; D019520:Living Donors; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
keywords: hepatic artery; living donor liver transplantation; multidetector computed tomography angiography; variations