Preoperative CT-based 3D analysis of middle colic vein anatomy for complete mesocolic excision in right-sided colon cancer: a retrospective cohort study from a prospective clinical trial
Vladimir Zivanovic, Dejan Ignjatovic, Javier Armando Luzon, Bojan Vladimir Stimec · 2026
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Zivanovic and colleagues (2026) mapped the anatomy of the middle colic vein in patients facing surgery for right-sided colon cancer. Removing the colon with the full surrounding tissue requires cutting near where this vein drains, and its branching varies a lot, which can raise risk. The team re-examined three-dimensional scans built from CT images for 300 patients in a surgical trial database.
The vein appeared in every case, with 397 veins in total. About two thirds of patients had one trunk, about three in ten had two, and a few had three. The main trunk most often drained into the superior mesenteric vein, but other trunks used several different paths, and the vein crossed the matching artery in varied positions. Because the layout is so changeable, the authors argue that scan-based mapping before the operation can guide safer, better-fitted cutting of the vessels.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Vladimir Zivanovic, Dejan Ignjatovic, Javier Armando Luzon, Bojan Vladimir Stimec |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 40 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |