An extremely rare case with right superior pulmonary vein translocation

BACKGROUND: There have been a number of reports on pulmonary venous anomalies. However, most of the reports focused on the anatomical branching pattern of the peripheral pulmonary veins. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a 75-year-old female whose right superior pulmonary vein V1 existed dorsal to the ri...

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Autores principales: Kamimura, Go, Ueda, Kazuhiro, Maeda, Koki, Aoki, Masaya, Nagata, Toshiyuki, Yokomakura, Naoya, Sato, Masami
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7205928/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32382810
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40792-020-00860-7
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Sumario:BACKGROUND: There have been a number of reports on pulmonary venous anomalies. However, most of the reports focused on the anatomical branching pattern of the peripheral pulmonary veins. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a 75-year-old female whose right superior pulmonary vein V1 existed dorsal to the right main pulmonary artery and V2+3 existed dorsal to V4+5. Thus, we could not find V1 and V2+3 in the hilum just after a thoracotomy to perform right upper lobectomy for lung cancer. Thus, the right main pulmonary artery and the superior trunk (A1+3) were exposed without cutting the superior pulmonary vein. CONCLUSION: There has been no report so far regarding this type of pulmonary vein translocation. Preoperative three-dimensional computed tomography images were helpful to identify this variant.

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