ナカジマ　レイコ   Nakajima Reiko   中島　怜子    所属   医学部 医学科（東京女子医科大学病院）    職種   助教
論文種別	原著
言語種別	英語
査読の有無	査読あり
表題	Variation of the origin of the left common carotid artery diagnosed by CT angiography.
掲載誌名	正式名：Surgical and radiologic anatomy : SRA 略　 称：Surg Radiol Anat ISSNコード：12798517/09301038
掲載区分	国外
巻・号・頁	35(4),pp.339-42
著者・共著者	Uchino Akira, Saito Naoko, Okada Yoshitaka, Kozawa Eito, Nishi Naoko, Mizukoshi Waka, Nakajima Reiko, Takahashi Masahiro, Watanabe Yusuke
発行年月	2013/05
概要	INTRODUCTION:The left common carotid artery (LCCA) is usually a second branch of the aortic arch that arises between the brachiocephalic trunk (BCT) and left subclavian artery; relatively frequently, it also arises from or shares a common origin with the BCT. In patients with LCCA of anomalous origin, transfemoral catheterization into the LCCA is sometimes difficult, and transbrachial or transradial approach may be recommended. We evaluated the prevalence of these variations on computed tomography (CT) angiography.METHODS:We retrospectively reviewed CT angiographic images of 2,357 patients obtained using either of two 64-slice multidetector CT scanners. All patients were Japanese and underwent scanning from the aortic arch to the intracranial region; most had or were suspected of having cerebrovascular diseases.RESULTS:We evaluated CT angiographic images of 2,352 patients after excluding four patients with LCCA occluded at its origin. The LCCA arose from the BCT in 141 patients (6.0 %) and had a common origin with the BCT in 130 patients (5.5 %). We found 11 aberrant right subclavian artery (0.47 %), and four of the 11 patients (36 %) had LCCA of common origin with the right common carotid artery, forming a bicarotid trunk (prevalence: 0.17 %).CONCLUSIONS:The total prevalence of variations of LCCA origin diagnosed by CT angiography was 11.7 %.
DOI	10.1007/s00276-012-1038-4
PMID	23129264