Type of Article: Case Report
Year: 2016 | Volume 4 | Issue 1 | Page No. 1754-1757
Date of Publication: 31-01-2016
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.16965/ijar.2015.317
RIGHT INFERIOR PHRENIC ARTERY AS A BRANCH OF THE RIGHT RENAL ARTERY: A CASE REPORT
Faria L.A.M 1, Ferreira W.S.M 1, Almeidinha D. L 1, Moraes L.O.C.*1,2.
*1 Department of Morphology - Medical School – Universidade Cidade de São Paulo – São Paulo – Brazil.
2 Descriptive and Topographic Anatomy’s Discipline - Department of Morphology and Genetic – Universidade Federal de São Paulo - São Paulo – Brazil.
Address: Prof. Dr. Luis Otavio Carvalho de Moraes, Descriptive and Topographic Anatomy’s Discipline, Department of Morphology and Genetic, Universidade Federal de São Paulo – Escola Paulista de Medicina, Rua Botucatu, 740 – Edifício Leitão da Cunha, Vila Clementino – São Paulo – SP – Brazil – 04023-900, Phone: (55-11) 5576-4261 extension 25, Fax: (55-11) 5571-7597
E-Mail: luisotavio27@yahoo.com.br
Abstract
The inferior phrenic arteries are involved in many diseases, such as hepatocellular carcinoma, where they are the main vessels responsible for the collateral arterial supply of this type of tumor of hepatic cells which is highly malignant. During a routine dissection a vascular variant was found in the abdominal cavity of a 34-year-old black cadaver whose right inferior phrenic artery (RIPA) derived from the right renal artery. This finding is clinically important since the transcatheter embolization of hepatocellular carcinoma and other hepatic neoplasms, such as hepatoblastoma and capsular adenoma frequently involve studying the root of the RIPA. This way, angiography can be potentially beneficial for knowing how the origins of these vessels vary.
KEY WORDS: Right inferior phrenic artery, Right renal artery, Hepatocellular carcinoma.
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Faria L.A.M, Ferreira W.S.M, Almeidinha D. L, Moraes L.O.C. RIGHT INFERIOR PHRENIC ARTERY AS A BRANCH OF THE RIGHT RENAL ARTERY: A CASE REPORT. Int J Anat Res 2016;4(1):1754-1757. DOI: 10.16965/ijar.2015.317