A STUYD ON VARIATION OF COELIAC TRUNK BRANCHES IN SOUTH INDIAN POPULATION

Gurushanthaiah. M1, *K. Satheesh Naik2, G.M. Mahesh3, S.Lokanadham4

Gurushanthaiah. M1, *K. Satheesh Naik2, G.M. Mahesh3, S.Lokanadham4 1Professor, Department of Anatomy, Basaveshwara Medical College, Chitradurga, KA, India. 2Assistant professor, Department of Anatomy, Basaveshwara Medical college, Chitradurga, KA, India. 3Professor, Department of Anatomy, Basaveshwara Medical College, Chitradurga, KA, India. 4Tutor, ESI Medical College, Chennai, TM, India.

Abstract

A variant course and branching pattern of the coeliac trunk was recorded in a 55-year-old male cadaver during the practical sessions of Basaveshwara medical college, Chitradurga, Karnataka, India. We report on a unique anatomically and surgically significant study of multiple coeliac trunk variations. Coeliac trunk arises from abdominal aorta normally and gave rise to common phrenic artery which divided into right inferior phrenic and left inferior phrenic arteries. After 0.5 cm course Coeliac trunk gave rise to left gastric artery then coursing downwards as hepatospleenic trunk, divided into common hepatic and spleenic arteries. Common hepatic gave rise to proper hepatic, gasrtoduodenal and a branch to right kidney. Proper hepatic artery communicates with right inferior phrenic, supplies right dome of diaphragm and liver. In our study right gastric artery was absent. Preoperative selective angiography or other coeliac trunk imaging studies are helpful for arterial variation demonstration and important for surgical, interventional and radiological purpose.

KEY WARDS: Coeliac trunk, common phrenic artery, hepatospleenic trunk.