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Single coronary artery with a pre-pulmonic dual left anterior descending artery and a retro-aortic left circumflex artery

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2016

Soham Shah  and
Prabhakar Rajiah
Soham Shah
Affiliation:
Department of Radiology, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
Prabhakar Rajiah*
Affiliation:
Department of Radiology, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America Department of Radiology, Cardiothoracic Imaging, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America
*
Correspondence to: P. Rajiah, Associate Professor of Radiology, Cardiothoracic Imaging, UT Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, Texas, 75390, United States of America. Tel: +214 648 3121; Fax: +214 648 5641; E-mail: radprabhakar@gmail.com
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Abstract

We present two cases of an unusual coronary artery anomaly, namely, a single coronary artery with retro-aortic course of the left circumflex artery and pre-pulmonic course of the left anterior descending artery, and one of which showed a dual left anterior descending artery as well – a combination that has not yet been reported in the literature.

Keywords

Coronary arteryanomalyCT
Type
Brief Reports
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Cardiology in the Young , Volume 26 , Issue 6 , August 2016 , pp. 1241 - 1245
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© Cambridge University Press 2016 

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