Combined resection of the transpancreatic common hepatic artery preserving the gastric arterial arcade without arterial reconstruction in hepatopancreatoduodenectomy: a case report

Abstract Background Surgeons sometimes must plan pancreatoduodenectomy (PD) for patients with a variant common hepatic artery (CHA) branching from the superior mesenteric artery (SMA) penetrating the pancreatic parenchyma, known as a transpancreatic CHA (tp-CHA). Case presentation A 67-year-old man...

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Main Authors: Takashi Miyata, Yusuke Yamamoto, Teiichi Sugiura, Yukiyasu Okamura, Takaaki Ito, Ryo Ashida, Sunao Uemura, Yoshiyasu Kato, Katsuhisa Ohgi, Atsushi Kohga, Tsuneyuki Uchida, Shusei Sano, Katsuhiko Uesaka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2018-06-01
Series:Surgical Case Reports
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40792-018-0474-8