한국인 간동맥의 정상변이에 관한 동맥조영술적 연구

Abstract

Anatomic structure of the hepatic artery is very complicated and also very variable. And so, it is an essential knowledge to the surgical intervention of the liver and trans-arterial embolization of hepatoma. But almost of aoo the anatomic textbook or articles are dealing with the statistics of Caucasians, not Koreans. Study of the hepatic arterial anatomy and its variations in Koreans is a little. Some are from cadaver and the other from angiographic findings. And there are several different methods of classification of hepatic arterial variations without general agreement. We want to propose a new classification method of the hepatic arterial variation by branching patterns from celiac axis and patterns of the accessory hepatic artery, or variable origin of individual hepatic arteries. We want to report of results from angiographic findings from 72 Koreans by the new classification method.