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
Preponderance of the left coronary artery and division into three brnaches of the same artery. Lateral view. Diagnosis: coarctation of the aorta. (a) right coronary artery: (1) right conus branch; (2) anterior branch to the right ventricle; (b) left coronary artery; (3) anterior interventricular branch with (4, 5, and 6) right branches, (b) left coronary artery; (3) anterior interventricular branch with (4, 5, and 6) right branches, and (7 and 8) left branches; (9) supernumerary median branch; (10) circumflex branch; (11) anterior branch to the left atruim; (12) posterior branches to the left ventricle; (13) posterior interventricular branch.
Preponderance of the left coronary artery: almost all the heart is supplied from this artery. Lateral view. Diagnosis: normal case. (a) right coronary artery: (1) right cornus branch; (b) left coronary artery; (2) anterior interventricular branch; (3) first left branch; (4) septal branches; (3) circumflex branch; (6) branch to the obtuse margin; (7) posterior branches to the left ventricle; (8) posterior interventricualr branch; (9) posterior branch to the right ventricle.
from Di Guglielmo and Guttadauro, 1954.
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