Illustrated Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation: Opus II: Cardiovascular System
Ronald A. Bergman, PhD
Adel K. Afifi, MD, MS
Ryosuke Miyauchi, MD
Peer Review Status: Internally Peer Reviewed
These rare variations were found in a 78 year-old male subject.
A.: cardiac veins converging on the ostium to the right
atrium.
B.: great cardiac vein draining into the superior vena cave (curved
arrow) after passing beneath a branch of the left coronary artery
(straight arrow).
Huber reported (in Piersol's Human Anatomy, 9th ed. J.B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia, 1930) that the great cardiac vein may, in the absence of the coronary sinus, terminate in the left brachiocephalic vein. In this specimen the great cardiac vein terminated in the superior vena cava.
Dissecting room specimen. The University of Iowa College of Medicine.
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