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case_images: A preoperative 3D-CT angiographic image shows the left main pulmonary artery and the left mediastinal lingular and basal pulmonary arteries. The left A4+5 and A8+9+10 formed a common trunk
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case_images: Preoperative 3D-CT angiography with contrast medium showed that the left pulmonary A4+5 and A8+9+10 formed a common trunk (Fig. 1), branching directly from the cardiac vesicle and running anteriorly to the left lower lobe bronchus.
case_images: The intraoperative findings after the dissection of the upper pulmonary vein. The A4+5 was found to form a common trunk with the A8+9+10 from the front of the hilum. LUL, left upper lobe; LSPV, left superior pulmonary vein (stump), H: heart
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case_images: A1+2c and A3a, which branch from the A6 into the upper lobe, were also identified. As expected from the 3D-CT scan, the A4+5 formed a common trunk with the A8+9+10 anteriorly to the hilum (Fig. 2).