Angiographic Anatomy and Normal Variations of Hepatic Artery in Koreans

Keimyung Medical Journal 1987;6(2):334-340.

한국인 간동맥의 정상변이에 관한 동맥조영술적 연구

전석길; 주양구; 김홍; 서수지

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 all 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.