A Rare Anomalous Case of Absence of the Celiac Trunk -the Left Gastric, the Splenic and the Common Hepatic Arteries Arose from the Abdominal Aorta Independently.

Shigenori OKADA; Yoshikuni OHTA; Takaharu SHIMIZU; Masaharu NAKAMURA; Kazuhiro YASO

doi:10.2535/ofaj1936.60.1_65

Shigenori OKADA, Yoshikuni OHTA, Takaharu SHIMIZU, Masaharu NAKAMURA, Kazuhiro YASO

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Keywords: Celiac artery/abnormalities, Left gastric artery, Splenic artery, Common Hepatic artery

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1983 Volume 60 Issue 1 Pages 65-71

DOI https://doi.org/10.2535/ofaj1936.60.1_65

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Abstract

A rare anomaly, in which the celiac artery was not present, that is, the left gastric, the splenic and the common hepatic arteries arose independently from the abdominal aorta in that order, was found in an 80-year-old Japanese female among cadavers for student dissection. Such a case was not described in Adachi's classification (1928) of the variations of the celiac artery, but seemed to belong to type V of Morita's classification (1935). This type was a rare, valuable and embryologically primitive pattern, which was suggested by Morita as typus primitivus, and has been reported a few times.

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