Table 3. Prevalence of aortic arch patterns reported in present study and the previous imaging studies including ≥1000 subjects in the literature.
| Terzioglu et al.* | Wang et al. | Müller et al. | Rea et al. | Vucurevic et al. | Boyaci et al. | Celikyay et al. | Ergun et al. | Karacan et al. | Berko et al. | |
| Country/ | Türkiye/ | China/ | Germany/ | Italy/ | Serbia/ | Türkiye/ | Türkiye/ | Türkiye/ | Türkiye/ | USA/ |
| year | 2020 | 2016 | 2011 | 2014 | 2013 | 2015 | 2013 | 2013 | 2014 | 2009 |
| AArchP | ||||||||||
| n | 2037 | 2370 | 2033 | 1359 | 1266 | 1170 | 1136 | 1001 | 1000 | 1000 |
| A (%) | 76.7 | 83.8 | 86.7 | 71 | 74.7 | 89.4 | 74.4 | 85.2 | 79.2 | 66.5 |
| B1 (%) | 15.5+ | 9.6 | 8 | 15.56 | 2.6+ | 21.1+ | 7.8+ | 14.1+ | 25.8 | |
| B2 (%) | 0.9+ | 0.6 | - | 23.5 | - | - | 0.4+ | - | 1.2+ | 1.6 |
| B3 (%) | - | 0.04 | - | - | - | 0.2+ | - | - | - | |
| B4 (%) | - | 0.04 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| C1 (%) | 4.76 | 4.7 | 4.2 | 3 | 3.6 | 4.5 | 2.9 | 5.1 | 4.1 | 6.1 |
| C2 (%) | 0.15 | 0.17 | 0.05 | 0.08 | - | 0.1 | - | - | - | |
| C3 (%) | - | 0.08 | - | 2.2 | - | - | - | 0.1 | - | |
| D1 (%) | 1 | 0.5 | 1 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.8 | ||
| D2 (%) | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.5 | - | 2.2 | 0.3 | - | 0.7 | 0.4 | |
| D3 (%) | - | 0.08 | - | 0.1 | - | - | - | |||
| E1 (%) | 0.15 | 0.08 | 0.05 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | - | 0.1 |
| E2 (%) | 0.2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| RM | CTA | CT | CT | CTA | CT/DSA | CT | CT/CTA | CTA | CTA | CTA |
| * Present study (gray column); AArchP: Aortic arch patterns; RM: Radiological modality, +: The frequency of type B variation differed significantly between the studies conducted in different regions of Türkiye, including the present study (p<0.05, One sample chi-square test). | ||||||||||