| Country | Author | Method | Study sample | Conventional branches | CMT variants | Complete CMT | Incomplete CMT | Celiac-bi-mesenteric | “Classic” CMT | G-M | S-M | H-M | H–S-M | G-S-M | H-G-M |
| France | Piquand et al., 1910 [15] | Cadaver | 50 | 41 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | France | Rio branco, 1912 [16] | Cadaver | 50 | 45 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | USA | Lipshutz et al., 1917 [1] | Cadaver | 83 | 62 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | USA | Eaton et al., 1917 [17] | Cadaver | 206 | 186 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Japan | Adachi et al., 1928 [18] | Cadaver | 252 | 218 | 10E | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | USA | Michels et al., 1955 [9] | Cadaver | 200 | 110 | 32E | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 31E,5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | USA | Nelson et al., 1988 [19] | Cadaver | 50 | 12 | 13E | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Japan | Shoumura et al., 1991 [20] | Cadaver | 450 | 408 | 12E | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | U.S.A. | Hiatt J. et al., 1994 [21] | Transplant operations | 1,000 | 757 | 15E | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Australia | Jones et al., 2001 [22] | Transplant dissection | 180 | 164 | 30E | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Japan | Nakamura et al., 2003 [23] | Cadaver | 250 | NR | 3E | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Italy | Ferrari et al., 2007 [24] | Imaging (CT) | 60 | 34 | 6E | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Italy | Ieezi et al., 2008 [25] | Imaging (CT) | 524 | 378 | 2E | 0 | 0 | 0 | NR | NR | 2 | 0 | 0 | Japan | Chen et al., 2009 [26] | Cadaver | 974 | 875 | 49E | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 7 | 2 | 0 | South Korea | Song et al., 2010 [27] | Imaging (CT) | 5002 | 4,457 | 232E | 0 | 53 | 1 | 9 | 132 | 34 | 3 | 0 | Russia | Egorov et al., 2010 [28] | Imaging (CT) | 350 | 197 | 58E | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 58E,4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Poland | Kornafel et al., 2010 [29] | Imaging (CT) | 201 | 192 | 4E | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Japan | Natsume et al., 2011 [30] | Imaging (CT) | 175 | 159 | 9E | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Spain | Villa et al., 2012 [31] | Imaging (CT) | 100 | 85 | 15E | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 14E,2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Japan | Miyaki et al., 2012 [32] | Cadaver | 378 | NR | 8E | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Romania | Matusz et al., 2012 [33] | Review | 10,750 | 9,751 | 73 | 0 | 73 | NR1 | NR1 | NR1 | NR1 | NR1 | NR1 | Greece | Panagouli et al., 2013 [10] | Systematic review | 12,196 | 10,906 | 446E | 1 | 93 | 0 | 0 | 297/9829E,7 | 49 | 6 | 0 | China | Mu et al., 2103 [34] | Imaging (CT) | 102 | 60 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Serbia | Ognjanovic et al., 2014 [35] | Imaging (CT) | 150 | 117 | 19E | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | China | Wang et al., 2014 [36] | Imaging (CT) | 1500 | 1,347 | 135E | 0 | 23 | 0 | 18 | 67 | 26 | 1 | 0 | Romania | Iacob et al., 2014 [37] | Imaging (CT) | 5442 | 4,942 | 30E | 0 | 23 | 0 | 0 | NR | 7 | | 0 | China | Huang et al., 2015 [38] | Imaging (CT) | 238 | 220 | 10E | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | India | Sharma et al., 2015 [39] | Imaging (CT) | 80 | 66 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | India | Babu et al., 2015 [11] | Imaging (CT) | 682 | 548 | 19E | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 12E,3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | Poland | Torres et al., 2015 [40] | Imaging (CT) | 1569 | 1455 | 72E | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 64 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Japan | Yuasa et al., 2016 [41] | Imaging (CT) | 279 | 253 | 8E | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Egypt | Osman et al., 2016 [42] | Imaging (CT) | 1000 | 905 | 142E | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 136 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Iran | Farghadani et al., 2016 [12] | Imaging (CT) | 607 | 308 | 72E | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 66E,6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Turkey | Alsaner et al., 2017 [43] | Imaging (CT) | 1000 | 890 | 4E | 0 | 1 | NR | NR | NR | 3 | 0 | 0 | Pakistan | Khan et al., 2017 [44] | Imaging (CT) | 160 | 139 | 2E | 0 | 1 | NR | NR | NR | 1 | 0 | 0 | Turkey | Caliskan et al., 2018 [45] | Imaging (CT) | 174 | 157 | 10E | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Mexico | Pinal-Garcia et al., 2018 [13] | Cadaver | 140 | 61 | 4E | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Romania | Bordei et al., 2019 [46] | Imaging (CT) | 2220 | NR | 12 | 0 | 12 | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | China | Tang et al., 2019 [47] | Imaging (CT) | 5580 | 5031 | 475E | 0 | 96 | 0 | 67 | 248 | 57 | 4 | 3 | China | Mao et al., 2019 [48] | Imaging (CT) | 2500 | 2243 | 225E | 0 | 85 | 0 | 27 | 112 | 1 | 0 | 0 | India | Ramadevi et al., 2020 [49] | Cadaver | 25 | 21 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Czech Republic | Whitley et al., 2020 [14] | Meta-analysis | 17,391 | 15,639 | 620E | 0 | 125 | 4 | 30 | 378 | 78 | 5 | 0 | Global prevalence | Global | | 74,320 | 63,439/71,472 (88.8%) | 2,886/74,320 (3.88%) | 2/74,320 (0.003%) | 659/74,320 (0.89%) | 6/60,190 (0.01%) | 159/59,666 (0.27%) | 1,758/54,224 (3.24%) | 276/61,350 (0.45%) | 22/61,350 (0.04%) | 4/61,350 (0.007%) | Caribbean | Cawich et al. | Imaging (CT) | 665 | 649 (97.6%) | 16/665 (2.41%) | 0 | 3 (0.45%) | 0 | 0 | 12 (1.8%) | 1 (0.15%) | 0 | 0 | P value | Caribbean vs. global | | | | 0.054 | — | 0.2985 | — | — | 0.0352 | 0.3798 | — | - |
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