Table 2. Literature review of the right top pulmonary vein.
| Author | Year | RTPV n (%) | Vascular diameter | Inflow site | Location | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IPV | LA | SPV | V6 | BMB | BIB | ||||
| Web et al.3) | 1984 | 1/40 (2.5) | – | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Jardin19) | 1986 | 10/107 (9.3) | – | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Kim20) | 1995 | 14/280 (5) | – | 11 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 14 |
| Matsubara et al.6) | 2003 | 2/700 (0.28) | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | 1 |
| Kato21) | 2003 | 2/55 (3.63) | – | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | – | – |
| Lickfett et al.7) | 2004 | 3/91 (3.29) | 7 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| Asai22) | 2005 | 41/725 (5.7) | 4.1 | 17 | 0 | 22 | 2 | 0 | 41 |
| Weerasooriya et al.4) | 2005 | 1/84 (1.19) | 13 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | – |
| Kaseno23) | 2008 | 16/428 (3.73) | 5.6 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 0 | – | – |
| Arslan et al.8) | 2008 | 14/610 (2.29) | 5.1 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 14 |
| Yamada et al.9) | 2010 | 1/86 (1.16) | – | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Akiba24) | 2010 | 3/140 (2.14) | – | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Akiba et al.10) | 2013 | 10/303 (3.3) | – | 0 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 9 |
| Shi et al.11) | 2017 | 1/102 (0.98) | – | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | – |
| Miyamoto et al.12) | 2021 | 31/387 (8.01) | 2.2 | 13 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 31 |
| Yaginuma et al.13) | 2021 | 154/4673 (3.29) | 3.7 | 65 | 3 | 85 | 0 | – | – |
| Murota et al.14) | 2023 | 131/1437 (9.1) | – | 85 | 29 | 16 | – | – | – |
| Li et al.15) | 2023 | 57/600 (9.5) | – | 22 | 21 | 6 | 8 | – | – |
| Our study (Horaguchi et al.) | 2024 | 17/314(5.4) | 5.1 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 13 |
RTPV: right top pulmonary vein; LA: left atrium; IPV: inferior pulmonary vein; V6: superior branch of IPV; SPV: superior pulmonary vein; BMB: behind the right main bronchus; BIB: behind the right intermediate bronchus