Intraoperative diagnosis with abnormal branching of the left A8 pulmonary artery from the left main pulmonary artery

Surgical Case Reports

Table 1 Abnormal branch of the left pulmonary artery to the lower lobe: a review of the literature

Report		First author	Year	Preoperative modality	Preoperative diagnosis
1	A9+10	Bamba	1985	Angiography	○
2	A5+8	Iwabuchi	1995	Contrast CT	×
3	A9+10	Sano	1996	Contrast CT	×
4	A8+9	Moriyama	2009	Contrast CT	○
5	A5+8+9+10	Kataoka	2010	Contrast CT	○
6	A8	Sueda	2011	Contrast CT	○
7	A9	Kaneda	2012	Contrast CT	×
8	A5+A8b	Kozu	2012	Contrast CT	×
9	A8+9b	Matsumoto	2012	3DCT	○
10	A8	Kato	2014	3DCT	×
11	A4+5+9+10	Yajima	2014	Non-contrast CT	×
12	A8b+9b+10	Kawai	2015	Contrast CT	○
13	A8+9+10	Sonoda	2016	3DCT	○
14	A5+8+10	Nagata	2016	3DCT	○
15	A8	Our case	2018	Non-contrast CT	×