Tag: aortic arch

Variations of the great arteries in the thoracic region are well known and the aortic arch is one ofthem. In 65–80% of cases, three branches arise from the arch of the aorta — the brachiocephalictrunk, the left common carotid artery, and the left subclavian artery. This pattern is described by Adachi [2] as type A...

Previous morphometric studies on the foetal aorta have been conducted in relation to its diameter only, using echocardiographic [1, 3, 6] and autopsy [2, 3, 7, 11, 12] methods...

This report describes an extremely rare case involving anomalous origin of part of the right pulmonary branch from the thoracic aorta in a 3 month-old boy and its successful repair.

Variations of the thoracic arteries, including branches of the aortic arch, are interesting from an anatomical and embryological aspect [4, 8, 27, 32]. They are, however, more important for thoracic operations, especially in vascular, cardiac, oesophageal, and mediastinal surgery [1, 9, 12, 14, 34]. Modern radiological techniques, especially computerised tomographic angiography (CTA), magnetic resonance angiography (MRA), multislice CT (MSCT), and MSCT angiography, have enabled an elegant insight into the thoracic blood vessels [21, 27]. Obviously, the mentioned variations are also very important in radiological diagnostics and interventional radiology...