Unusual branching pattern of common hepatic artery – a case report

Introduction The common hepatic artery is normally a branch of coeliac trunk. It runs forwards and to the right and divides into a hepatic artery proper and a gastroduodenal artery. The hepatic artery proper terminates by dividing into right and left hepatic arteries and the gastroduodenal artery terminates by dividing into superior pancreaticoduodenal artery and right gastroepiploic artery. The right gastric artery arises either from common hepatic artery or the hepatic artery proper. The variations in the branching pattern of common hepatic artery are rare and the knowledge of the variations may be very useful for radiologists and surgeons. We report one of the very rare variations of common hepatic artery and its branches.