[Laparoscopic Left Hemicolectomy-It Is Confirmed That the Accessory Middle Colonic Artery Branched from the Splenic Artery Showed by Preoperative 3D-CT]

Gan To Kagaku Ryoho. 2021 Dec;48(13):1972-1974.
[Article in Japanese]

Abstract

There is a wide variety of vessel types in the transverse colon region. Among them, it is very rare that the accessory middle colonic artery(A-MCA)is branched from the splenic artery. We found a transverse colon cancer. The dominant vessel of the cancer was the A-MCA branched from the splenic artery. This vessel type was confirmed by preoperative 3D-CT. We performed a laparoscopic left hemicolectomy for the cancer. In this study, we report a case of safe laparoscopic surgery in which we separate the A-MCA branched from the splenic artery using the preoperative 3D-CT image.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Arteries
  • Colectomy
  • Colon, Transverse* / surgery
  • Colonic Neoplasms* / diagnostic imaging
  • Colonic Neoplasms* / surgery
  • Humans
  • Laparoscopy*
  • Splenic Artery
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed