ArticleJournal of cardiothoracic surgery2021
Analysis of bronchial and vascular patterns in left upper lobes to explore the genesis of mediastinal lingular artery and its influence on pulmonary anatomical variation.
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- Analysis of variations in the bronchovascular pattern of the lingular segment to explore the correlations between the lingular segment artery and left superior division veins.Frontiers in surgery · 2023Article
- Analysis of pulmonary artery variation based on 3D reconstruction of CT angiography.Frontiers in physiology · 2023Article
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- Anatomical variation analysis of left upper pulmonary blood vessels and bronchi based on three-dimensional reconstruction of chest CT.Frontiers in oncology · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundFor thoracic surgeons, three-dimensional computed tomography bronchography and angiography (3-DCTBA) is a convenient way to analyze pulmonary variations before segmentectomy. Mediastinal lingular artery (MLA) is one of the representative variations.
methodsThe 3-DCTBA data of left upper lobe (LUL) were collected from patients who underwent pulmonary surgery from January 2018 to December 2019. We reviewed the patterns of bronchi and pulmonary vessels and grouped them according to different classifications.
resultsAmong all the 404 cases of 3-DCTBA, mediastinal lingular artery (MLA) was found in 107 cases (26.49%). The patterns of B
conclusionsMediastinal lingular artery is speculated to originate from the variation of B
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