PURPOSE During laparoscopic gastrectomy, an aberrant left hepatic artery (ALHA) arising from the left gastric artery (LGA) is occasionally encountered. The aim of this study was to define when an ALHA should be preserved during laparoscopic gastrectomy. MATERIALS AND METHODS From August 2009 to December 2014, 1,340 patients with early gastric cancer underwent laparoscopic distal gastrectomy. ...

BACKGROUND To evaluate the prevalence of the accessory left hepatic artery (ALHA; defined as a vessel arising from the left gastric artery, which, together with a typical left hepatic artery, supplies blood to the left lobe of the liver) and its short-term clinical implications in patients undergoing radical gastrectomy for gastric cancer. METHODS Clinical data of 1173 patients with gastric c...

An aberrant left gastric vein (ALGV) directly entering the lateral segment of the liver is a rare variation in the portal vein system, whereas an aberrant left hepatic artery (ALHA) arising from the left gastric artery is observed relatively frequently. Here we report a case in which both ALGV and ALHA were encountered before laparoscopic distal gastrectomy with curative lymphadenectomy for gas...

BACKGROUND Laparoscopic surgery requires a more detailed understanding of local anatomy than does conventional open surgery. The aim of this study was to examine the usefulness of dynamic computed tomography (D-CT) for identification of the location of the left gastric vein (LGV) and existence of the aberrant left hepatic artery (ALHA) compared with conventional enhanced computed tomography (E-...

The main classical branches of celiac trunk (CT) are the common hepatic artery (CHA), the left gastric artery (LGA) and the splenic artery (SA). During the educational dissections in a 62-year-old male cadaver a rare variation, the gastroduodenal-splenic trunk (GDST), was observed. GDST divided into SA and gastroduodenal artery (GDA). LGA and accessory left hepatic artery (ALHA) arose directly ...

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Results on nakhlite Martian meteorites and on ALHA84001 have led to a debate on the noble gas components contributing to the inventory of these meteorites and the ways to introduce them [1-7]. In a diagram Xe/Xe vs. Kr/Xe they fall off the mixing line Martian interior – Martian atmosphere tending towards lower Kr/Xe-ratios. This was discussed already in 1988 by [8], who suggested incorporation ...

Introduction: The discovery of spinel rich rock on the Earth’s Moon, detected by the M near-IR mapping spectrometer on the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft [1] is among the most intriguing discoveries in a time filled with lunar revelations (e.g., [2]). The M spectrometer discerned several areas on the rim of the far-side Moscoviense basin which had near-IR reflectance spectra characteristic of abundan...

Lunar highland meteorites contain fragments of metamorphic granulites with a wide range of Mg* (molar Mg/(Mg+Fe)) [1], between that of Mg-suite plutonics and magnesian anorthositic granulites (MAG), and those of ferroan anorthosites (FAN), Figure 1 [2,3]. The intermediate-Mg* granulites have been inferred (explicitly or implicitly) to represent mixtures of FAN and MAG or Mg-suite rocks. To test...