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Table 1 Review of previous literature about right top pulmonary vein and related case

From: Right top pulmonary vein is a venous anomaly of which surgeons should be aware in subcarinal dissection for thoracoscopic esophagectomy: a case report and literature review

   

Occurent rate (%)

  

Location

Inflow site

Author

Year

Specialty

N

Diameter (mm)

main

intermediate

SPV

IPV

LA

V6

Webb [5]

1984

Radiology

2.5

1/40

 

0

1

0

0

1

0

Jardin

1986

Radiology

9.3

10/107

 

0

10

0

10

0

0

Kim

1995

Radiology

5

14/280

 

0

14

3

11

0

0

Matsubara [11]

2003

Surgery

0.28

2/700

 

0

1

    

Kato

2003

Cardiology

3.63

2/55

   

0

0

2

0

Lickfett [6]

2004

Cardiology

3.29

3/91

7.0

1a

 

0

0

3

0

Asai

2005

Surgery

5.7

41/725

4.1 ± 1.6

0

41

22

17

0

2

Weerasooriya [7]

2005

Cardiology

1.19

1/84

   

0

0

1

0

Kaseno

2008

Cardiology

3.73

16/428

5.6 ± 2.8

  

0

0

16

0

Arslan [12]

2008

Radiology

2.29

14/610

5.1

0

14

    

Yamada [13]

2009

Surgery

1.16

1/86

 

0

1

0

0

1

0

Akiba

2010

Surgery

2.14

3/140

 

0

3

0

0

3

0

Akiba [9]

2013

Surgery

3.3

10/303

 

2b

9b

4

0

4

1

Shi [8]

2017

Radiology

0.98

1/102

   

0

0

1

0

Miyamoto [10]

2021

Surgery

8.01

31/387

2.2 ± 0.72

0

31

3

13

11

4

Yaginuma [14]

2021

Respiratory

3.29

154/4673

3.7

  

85

65

3

0

Our case

 

Surgery

 

1

5.8

1

   

1

 
  1. aThe other two cases are not mentioned
  2. bOne example had two common branches
  3. RTPV Right top pulmonary vein, N Number of patients, SPV Superior pulmonary vein, IPV Inferior pulmonary vein, LA Left atrium, V6 the branch of the right inferior pulmonary vein