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And its property was determined by tissue slice.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>A total of 84 patients were included, of which, the vessel was observed in 72 (85.7%) patients, and its property was confirmed by tissue slice of one patient after surgery. The vessel was also observed in a nonspecific cadaver. Originating from transverse pancreatic artery, often one, occasionally two, rarely three vessels arose <jats:italic>via<\/jats:italic> the inferior margin of pancreas and supplied the left transverse colon. Artery and vein parallel ran, and it was difficult to separate them due to their small diameter, but the vessels may thicken under certain conditions for increasing blood supply.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>The vessel, which is not yet reported and named in the literature, can be called the subpancreatic transverse colon vessel, which has a high probability of presence in humans and may be of great significance to human physiological anatomy, surgery, and oncology, and deserves recognition and attention from surgeons.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fsurg.2022.938223","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,7,1]],"date-time":"2022-07-01T06:07:56Z","timestamp":1656655676000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Anatomy of Subpancreatic Transverse Colon Vessel and Its Clinical Significance: An Observational Study"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"9","author":[{"given":"Jiankun","family":"Liao","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Haiquan","family":"Qin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Li","family":"Wei","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Zigao","family":"Huang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Linghou","family":"Meng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Wentao","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xianwei","family":"Mo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,7,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"B1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"406","DOI":"10.1002\/jso.21830","article-title":"Lymph node ratio as determined by the 7th edition of the American Joint Committee on Cancer staging system predicts survival in stage III colon cancer","volume":"103","author":"Hong","year":"2011","journal-title":"J Surg Oncol."},{"key":"B2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"133","DOI":"10.1007\/s12029-013-9576-5","article-title":"Prognosis impact of the lymph node ratio in patients with colon adenocarcinoma: a single-centre experience","volume":"45","author":"Ramos-Esquivel","year":"2014","journal-title":"J Gastrointest Cancer."},{"key":"B3","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"827","DOI":"10.1016\/j.amjsurg.2007.08.030","article-title":"The metastatic lymph node ratio predicts survival in colon cancer","volume":"194","author":"Schumacher","year":"2007","journal-title":"Am J Surg."},{"key":"B4","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1223","DOI":"10.1007\/s00384-014-1971-2","article-title":"Lymph node metastasis of carcinomas of transverse colon including flexures. 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