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ReviewActa medica academica2023

Anatomical Variations in the Celiac Trunk: A Short Review.

Ioannis Vougadiotis, Vasileios Karampelias, Dimosthenis Chrysikos, Ioannis Antonopoulos, Eirini Solia, Ypatios Spanidis, George Tsakotos, Theodore Troupis

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Review in Acta medica academica, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ioannis VougadiotisDepartment of Anatomy, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Vasileios KarampeliasDepartment of Anatomy, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Dimosthenis ChrysikosDepartment of Anatomy, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Ioannis AntonopoulosDepartment of Anatomy, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Eirini SoliaDepartment of Anatomy, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Ypatios SpanidisDepartment of Anatomy, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
George TsakotosDepartment of Anatomy, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Theodore TroupisDepartment of Anatomy, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece. ttroupis@gmail.com; ttroupis@med.uoa.gr.
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens · GR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveThe objective of the current study was the examination of possible variants of the celiac trunk.

methodsAn advanced review of the literature search was undertaken by means of the PubMed database and Google Scholar, searching for new studies published up to October 2022. Additional articles provided useful information in relation to the aim of this review. Hence, articles that met the inclusion criteria were included in this review and the collected data were organized into a table.

resultsThe search of the literature retrieved 10 articles that referred to the anatomical variations of the celiac trunk. According to the available literature, the most common anatomical variations are: hepatosplenic trunk where the left gastric artery originates from the abdominal aorta, hepatosplenic trunk, where the left gastric artery originates from the splenic artery, and hepatogastric trunk and splenic artery origin from the superior mesenteric artery. Many other anatomical variations of the celiac trunk may exist, such as tetrafurcation, pentafurcation and hexafurcation, that refer to the division of the celiac trunk into four, five or six branches, respectively, and should be reported as they can affect surgical approaches and the development of the appropriate treatment strategy in patients.

conclusionEvery visceral surgeon, interventional radiologist and abdominal imager should be familiar with these variants.

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Celiac ArteryHumansAnatomical VariationAortaCeliac TrunkSurgeryVariations

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PMCPMC10698368
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