Aberrant origin of right coronary artery from left coronary sinus and course between the great arteries diagnosed by 64-slice computed tomography

A woman 62 years old, with atypical chest pain was sent to our Institute to rule out pulmonary thrombo-embolism. An enhanced chest multi-detector computed tomography (MDCT) discarded pulmonary embolism, but origin of the right coronary artery from the left coronary sinus and course between aorta and main pulmonary artery were demonstrated by coronary angiography MDCT. Keywords: coronary artery anomaly | multi-detector computed tomography | aberrant right coronary artery
Introduction Anomalous origin of right coronary artery from the left coronary sinus and course between the aorta and main pulmonary artery was reported for the first time by White and [...]