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 Persistent dorsal ophthalmic artery and ophthalmic artery arising from the middle meningeal artery diagnosed by MR angiography at 3 T.
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(9),pp.775-82
著者・共著者 Uchino Akira, Saito Naoko, Takahashi Masahiro, Kozawa Eito, Mizukoshi Waka, Nakajima Reiko, Okano Nanami
発行年月 2013/11
概要 INTRODUCTION:A persistent dorsal ophthalmic artery (OA) is a rare variation that originates from the cavernous segment of the internal carotid artery (ICA) and enters the orbit via the superior orbital fissure (SOF). Occasionally, the OA also arises from the middle meningeal artery (MMA) and enters the orbit via the SOF. These two major variations of the OA have not been well described by magnetic resonance (MR) angiography. We evaluated their prevalence on MR angiography at 3 T.METHODS:We retrospectively reviewed our database of MR angiographic images obtained using a 3 T imager. Of images of 846 patients, we evaluated those of 826 patients (1,652 OAs) with special attention to OA origin and its course into the orbit. We excluded images of the 20 because quality was insufficient to assess.RESULTS:We found 7 (0.42%) persistent dorsal OAs among 1,652 OAs (right/left, 6/1; male/female, 3/4). Twenty-four (1.45%) OAs arose from the MMA (right/left/bilateral, 11/5/4; male/female, 10/10), three of which also demonstrated a small normally branching OA. In one patient, we observed both right persistent dorsal OA and left OA arising from the MMA.CONCLUSIONS:Per OA, the prevalence of persistent dorsal OA was 0.42% and of OA arising from the MMA, 1.45%, with a tendency toward right-side predominance. OA arising from the MMA can be seen bilaterally; preprocedural knowledge of this variation is important because of the danger associated with endovascular procedures of the external carotid system when the OA arises from the MMA.
DOI 10.1007/s00276-013-1085-5
PMID 23430064