Morphological Analysis of Bronchial Arteries and Variants with Computed Tomography Angiography.
Claudia Nallely Esparza-HernándezJuan Manuel Ramírez-GonzálezRolando Alberto Cuéllar-LozanoRodolfo Morales-AvalosCarla Sofía González-ArochaBrenda Martínez-GonzálezAlejandro Quiroga-GarzaRicardo Pinales-RazoGuillermo Elizondo-RiojasRodrigo Enrique Elizondo OmanaSantos Guzmán-LópezPublished in: BioMed research international (2017)
The aim of our study was to determine the prevalence of anatomical variants of bronchial arteries using computed tomographic angiography in a population of northeastern Mexico. An observational, transversal, descriptive, comparative, retrospective study was performed using 139 imaging studies of Mexican patients in which we evaluated the following parameters from the left and right bronchial arteries: artery origin, branching pattern, arterial ostium, vertebral level of origin, diameter, and mediastinal trajectory. The anatomies of the bronchial arteries were similar in both genders, except distribution for vertebral origin level (p 0.006) and the diameter (p 0.013). Left and right arteries were similar, except for the mediastinal trajectory in reference to the esophagus (p < 0.001) as well as the arterial diameter (p < 0.001) and lumen diameter.
Keyphrases
- optic nerve
- lymph node
- blood flow
- copy number
- end stage renal disease
- ultrasound guided
- ejection fraction
- newly diagnosed
- optical coherence tomography
- bone mineral density
- high resolution
- computed tomography
- cross sectional
- prognostic factors
- gene expression
- dna methylation
- postmenopausal women
- case control
- patient reported