Atypical Arterial Supply to the Spleen by Polar Branches of Splenic Artery and Accessory Splenic Artery – A Case Report

Kumar, Naveen; Patil, Jyothsna; Swamy, Ravindra S; Guru, Anitha; Nayak, Satheesha B

doi:10.7860/jcdr/2014/8582.4656

Cited by 7 publications

(10 citation statements)

References 5 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Of the 35 included studies (Table 3), 4 were from North America [3,16,24,28], 1 was from South America [46], 13 were from Asia [5,6,13,14,17,18,20,23,27,36,37,39,40,43], 16 were from Europe [3,15,19,23,24,26,[29][30][31][32]35,38,39,41,42,44], and 1 was from Africa [45]. In relation to the type of study, nineteen reviewed works corresponded to case studies [5,10,13,15,[17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25]<...…”

Section: Quantitative Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The total number of specimens in the 24 studies analyzed was 684. In relation to gender, five studies did not report the gender of the individuals analyzed [3,14,25,27,33], eleven studies analyzed individuals of the male gender [13,15,17,18,20,[22][23][24]26,28,33] and five of the female gender [19,23,[29][30][31], and three [3,6,9,32] studies included individuals of both genders. The percentage of men in studies with n > 1 fluctuated between 55.2% and 82.5%, with a mean of 67.7%.…”

Section: Quantitative Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the domain "characterization of the methodology", 18 studies (51%) [5,6,15,18,22,[25][26][27]29,30,[32][33][34]38,39,42,54,55] have a high risk of bias. With respect to the "descriptive anatomy" domain, 21 (60%) [3][4][5][6]13,14,[16][17][18][19][20][21]24,[27][28][29][30][31][32][33]37,42,59,60] studies presented a high risk of bias. Lastly, for the domain "outcome report", the risk of bias was high in 11 (31%) studies [13,[20][21][22][23][24][25]...…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Total of 127 human spleens were studied, of which 50 were fresh post-mortem specimens; the remaining 77 were from dissection room cadavers. Of the nineteen studies included with n = 1 [3,10,13,15,[17][18][19][20][22][23][24][25][26][27]29,30,33,58], sixteen reported variations in the origin of the splenic artery [2,3,6,13,14,16,19,[19][20][21][22][23][24][29][30][31] and described the presence of a hepatosplenic trunk [9], a mesenteric hepatosplenic trunk [4,33,54,56,57,63], a gastrosplenic trunk [14,19,29], and an origin of the splenic artery from the abdominal aorta artery [6,16,31]…”

Section: Ireland/europementioning

confidence: 99%

“…This could include greater curvature of the stomach, the upper portion of the duodenum, or pathologies of the pancreas, mainly in respect of the body and tail, since in imaging the diagnosis could otherwise depend on the diagnostic criteria and the patient's symptoms, which could lead to erroneous diagnoses and/or overestimation or underestimation of different pathologies of the aforementioned regions. Regarding the intervention of therapeutic studies, the same patterns mentioned for diagnosis should be considered [5,13,17,22,27,[29][30][31].…”

Section: Clinical Correlation With Diagnostic and Therapeutic Studymentioning

confidence: 99%

See 4 more Smart Citations

Prevalence and Clinical Consideration of Anatomical Variants of the Splenic Artery: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Valenzuela-Fuenzalida

Martínez-Hernández

Pérez-Jiménez

et al. 2023

Applied Sciences

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Background: The spleen is the largest secondary immune organ in the body. Knowledge regarding the normal splenic vascular anatomy and its anatomical variants is crucial in the medical practice of surgeons and radiologists and is useful for diagnostic evaluations and the guidance of various surgical procedures. Hence, in this research, we aim to characterize the behavior of the lineal or splenic artery in humans from an anatomoclinical point of view. Methods: A systematic search was carried out in electronic databases to compile the available literature on the research subject. Searches were undertaken in the following databases: Medline, Scielo, Wos, Cinahl, Scopus, and Google Scholar. The search terms were “Splenic artery”, “Splenic vascularization”, “Anatomical variations’’, “Splenic organ”, and “Clinical anatomy”. Results: From the 35 studies included in this review, clinical correlations of anatomical variations in the splenic artery with surgical procedures in the abdominal region were reported in 8 studies. These correlations are mainly associated with surgical procedures for the pancreas, liver, stomach, and bile ducts through imaging of the spleen. To verify our conclusions, the risk of bias of the anatomical studies was measured using the AQUA checklist. Conclusions: Recognition of the usual anatomy and anatomical variants of the splenic artery is crucial for both morphology professionals and clinicians addressing the abdominal region and its vascular components. In this review, we determined that the splenic artery could present a variation in its origin or entry into the splenic hilum, which could mean that in any abdominal intervention there may be complications if the splenic artery variation is overlooked. More anatomic clinical studies considering this variation in both diagnostic and surgical processes are suggested for further investigations.

show abstract