Open AccessCommon trunk of the right accessory renal artery and right inferior phrenic artery originating from the thoracic artery: An unreported variation
Author(s) -
Lingling Li,
Bing Jie,
Dong Yu,
Xu Ma,
Sen Jiang
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of interventional medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2096-3602
pISSN - 2590-0293
DOI - 10.1016/j.jimed.2021.07.001
Subject(s) - medicine , right renal artery , renal artery , trunk , abdominal aorta , angiography , radiology , aorta , anatomy , artery , right coronary artery , computed tomography angiography , cardiology , kidney , coronary angiography , ecology , biology , myocardial infarction
Accessory renal arteries (ARAs) are common and usually originate from the abdominal aorta and the renal artery. Inferior phrenic arteries (IPAs) can also arise from the abdominal aorta or its branches. In this paper, we present the first case of a common trunk of the right ARA and right IPA arising from the thoracic artery at the level of T10, which was discovered by multidetector-row computed tomography in pretherapeutic evaluation and clearly confirmed by selective angiography. It is important to recognize this anatomical variation when performing cardiovascular and interventional radiological procedures.