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Table 1 Summary of previous cases of the IMA arising from the SMA

From: A case report of sigmoid colon cancer with the inferior mesenteric artery directly originating from the superior mesenteric artery

Author

Year

Age

Sex

Order of the IMA branching from the SMA origin

LCA branching from the IMA

Associated arterial anomalies

Gwyn DG

1966

76

male

2nd

Present

No other abnormalities

Kitamura S

1987

69

male

1st

Present

No other abnormalities

Yamasaki M

1990

61

female

1st

Absent*

Anomaly of the middle colic artery

Kakihara N

2001

66

male

1st

Present

Hepatomesenteric trunk

Osawa T

2004

79

male

1st

Not described

Hepatomesenteric trunk

Yi S-Q

2008

79

male

1st

Present

Gastrophrenic trunk, hapatosplenic trunk

Maleux G

2010

64

female

1st

Not described

Accessory mesenteric artery to the ileum

Yoo SJ

2011

82

female

2nd

Present

No other abnormalities

Okuda

2019

63

male

1st

Present

No other abnormalities

Kondou H

2015

63

male

1st

Present

No other abnormalities

Minamisawa K

2019

66

female

1st

Present

No other abnormalities

Matsutani Y

2020

75

male

1st

Present

No other abnormalities

Korai T

2021

65

female

1st

Absent (described as aMCA)

No other abnormalities

The present case

2023

59

male

1st

Present

No other abnormalities

  1. IMA inferior mesenteric artery, SMA superior mesenteric artery, LCA left colic artery
  2. *arising from a common trunk with right and middle colic arteries