Anatomy Atlases: Illustrated Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation: Opus IV: Organ Systems: Variations in Peripheral Segmentation of Right Lung

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Illustrated Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation: Opus IV: Organ Systems

Variations in Peripheral Segmentation of Right Lung and the Base of the Right and Left Lungs

Ronald A. Bergman, PhD
Adel K. Afifi, MD, MS
Ryosuke Miyauchi, MD
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Variation in peripheral segmentation of right lung (A-F).

Variations in fissures on the inferior face of right and left lungs (G-L).

A	Normal right lung
B	Incomplete horizontal fissure
C	Another type of incomplete horizontal fissure
D	Absence of horizontal fissure
E	Subdivision of the superior lobe
F	Subdivision of the middle lobe
G	Subdivision of the inferior lobe
H	More complete subdivision of the inferior lobe
I	Incomplete oblique fissure
J	Right infracardiac lobe
K	Left infracardiac lobe
L	Left infracardiac lobe with a second ventral lobe

Redrawn from Lucien, in Testut, L. and A. Latarjet. Traité d'Anatomie Humaine.G. Doin & Cie., Paris, 1949.

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