Internal Thoracic Artery Encircled by an Unusual Phrenic Nerve Loop

We report an anatomic variation of the phrenic nerve. During a routine gross anatomical dissection course at our medical university, we found an unusual loop of the left phrenic nerve around the internal thoracic artery, about 1 cm from the take-off of the left subclavian artery. The phrenic nerve i...

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Main Authors: Robert Fu-Chean Chen, Yung-Yu Tsai, Hellen Jeng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2007-12-01
Series:Journal of the Formosan Medical Association
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0929664608600868