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
Variations in the mode of division of the left coronary artery. Division into three branches. A-p view. Diagnosis: coarctation of the aorta. (a) right coronary artery; (b) left coronary artery; (1) anterior interventricular branch; (2) supernumerary median branch; (3) circumflex branch; (4) anterior septal branches; (5) posterior branch to the left atrium.
Origin of one coronary artery from the pulmonary artery. The genesis of the anomaly according to Wüthrich. (1) truncus arteriosus communis: (2) normal conditions: both right and left coronary arteries spring off from the aorta; (3) anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery.
from Di Guglielmo and Guttadauro, 1954.
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