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Table 1 Reports of right mediastinal basal pulmonary artery: A review of literature

From: Aberrant mediastinal mediobasal segmental pulmonary artery in a patient with lung cancer undergoing right lower lobectomy: a case report

Case

Journal

Age

Sex

Diagnosis

Location

Size(mm)

1

GTCS/2011 [5]

72

M

Metastasis from rectal cancer

Rt. S7

7

2

Surg Case Rep/2016 [6]

67

M

Lung cancer

NR

NR

3

GTCS/2017 [7]

76

M

Squamous cell carcinoma

NR

65

4

ATS/2020 [8]

74

F

Invasive mucinous adenocarcinoma

Rt.S6-9

73

5

Surg Case Rep/2021 [9]

73

M

Combined small cell carcinoma

Rt. S9

18

6

Our case

71

F

Papillary adenocarcinoma

Rt. S6

25

Case

Preoperative exam

Aberrant

Operative procedure

Operation

Interlobular fissure

1

MDCT angiography

A7

Right basal segmentectomy

VATS

Incomplete

2

3D angiography

A7

Right middle lobectomy

VATS

Incomplete

3

MDCT

A7-10

Right lower lobectomy

VATS

Incomplete

4

Enhanced TSCT

A6-10

Right lower lobectomy

Small thoracotomy

Incomplete

5

CT angiography

A7a

Right basal segmentectomy

VATS

Incomplete

6

3D angiography

A7

Right lower lobectomy

Small thoracotomy

Incomplete

Case

Operative step â‘ 

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â‘¢

1

Interlobular incision

Aberrant A7

 

2

Interlobular incision

Not resected aberrant

 

3

Interlobular incision

Aberrant A7-10

 

4

Interlobular incision

Aberrant A6-10

 

5

Abasal + aberrant A7a

Bbasal + V7-10

Intersegmental incision

6

A6 + Abasal

IPV + aberrant A7

Interlobular incision

Case

Operation time (min)

Blood loss (ml)

Complication

Postoperative course

1

NR

NR

None

No rec. at 8POM

2

NR

NR

Air leak

No rec. at 7POM

3

NR

NR

None

NR

4

80

10

None

Adjuvant chemotherapy and no rec

5

144

30

None

No rec. at 1POY

6

153

25

Air leak

No rec. at 6POM

  1. NR: not referred; MDCT: multi-dimension computed tomography; TSCT: thin-slice CT; VATS: video assisted thoracic surgery; IPV: inferior pulmonary vein; POM: postoperative month