Uncommon CT imaging of the hepatic falciform artery in patients presenting with very unusual variants of gastrointestinal arteries: report of two cases

Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy : SRA
Bruno Coulier

Abstract

The hepatic falciform artery (HFA) may be found in 68% of subjects in post-mortem dissections. It is well known by interventional radiologists who perform selective hepatic angiography. The reason essentially results from the potential supraumbilical skin complications which may produce by the distribution of chemotherapeutic agents through the HFA after transcatheter chemoinfusion or chemoembolization for liver tumors. Nevertheless, the spontaneous visualization of the HFA remains very unusual in current abdominal CT practice. We hereby report the demonstration of a patent HFA during conventional abdominal CT in two patients presenting without liver disease but in which very unusual variants of the gastrointestinal arteries were simultaneously found. The first patient had a common celiomesenteric trunk and the second had a severe compression of both the celiac trunk and superior mesenteric artery by the median arcuate ligament of the diaphragm. We shortly review the literature about these rare variants. We hypothesize that the HFA was spontaneously visible in our patients because of hypertrophy due supplying collateralization.

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