Bilateral thoracic ducts with coexistent persistent left superior vena cava

Clinical Anatomy

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 350-353

  Chen, Huayue ^a   Shoumura, Shizuko ^a   Emura, Shoichi ^b  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b GIFU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anatomic variation; Superior vena cava; Thoracic duct

Indexed keywords

ACCESSORY HEMIAZYGOS VEIN; AGED; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; AORTA ARCH; ARTICLE; AZYGOS VEIN; BILATERAL THORACIC DUCT; BRACHIOCEPHALIC VEIN; CADAVER; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL MEDICINE; CORONARY SINUS; DISSECTION; EMBRYOLOGY; FEMALE; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEMIAZYGOS VEIN; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEFT SUPERIOR INTERCOSTAL VEIN; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE; PERSISTENT LEFT SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; SPINE; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; THORACIC DUCT; VEIN; VENOUS RETURN;

AGED; AZYGOS VEIN; CADAVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; THORACIC DUCT; VENA CAVA, SUPERIOR;

EID: 33646492331     PISSN: 08973806     EISSN: 10982353     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ca.20178     Document Type: Article

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