TITLE:
Intralobar Pulmonary Sequestration with Rete Mirabile as Part of Its Systemic Artery
AUTHORS:
Patrick Mailleux, Marylène Clausse
KEYWORDS:
CT, Aberrant Systemic Artery, Congenital Anomalous Artery, Pulmonary Sequestration, Rete Mirabile
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Medical Imaging,
Vol.10 No.2,
May
19,
2020
ABSTRACT: Intralobar sequestration (ILS) is a complex lung lesion where part of a
lower lobe lacks communication with the tracheobronchial tree and receives an
aberrant arterial blood supply from the systemic circulation. That systemic
artery is usually large, originating from the thoracic aorta or the abdominal
aorta and its upper branches. We describe a case of ILS where a large systemic
artery coming up from below the diaphragm is formed by the convergence of many
very small serpiginous arteries coming up from the area of the celiac trunk and
common hepatic artery: a kind of “rete mirabile”. This peculiar morphology was
not described before.