Surgery
Volume 26, Issue 12 , Pages 473-476, December 2008

Anatomy of the heart

Vishy Mahadevan PhD FRCS(Ed) FRCS is Professor of Surgical Anatomy and Barbers' Company Reader in Anatomy at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, London, UK. Conflicts of interest: none declared

Abstract 

This contribution is intended as a concise description of the external and internal topographical anatomy of the heart, and those aspects of cardiac functional anatomy that are essential to clinical cardiac examination.

Keywords: atrium, left coronary artery, left heart, pericardium, right coronary artery, right heart, venous drainage, ventricular

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PII: S0263-9319(08)00253-6

doi:10.1016/j.mpsur.2008.09.022

Surgery
Volume 26, Issue 12 , Pages 473-476, December 2008

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