Bassett Collection of Stereoscopic Images of Human Anatomy
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- Overview 33
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- Bones Cartilage Joints 4
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- Eye 62
- Face 153
- Frontal Lobe 22
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- Midbrain 54
- Mouth 63
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- Nose 20
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- Overview 1
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- Central Nervous System 26
- External Genitalia 9
- Large Intestine 6
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- Bones Joints Cartilage 75
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- Leg 41
- Muscles & Tendons 152
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- Pharynx 17
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- Bones Joints Cartilage 44
- Central Nervous System 27
- External Genitalia 10
- Female 1
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- Overview 7
- Bones Joints Cartilage 33
- Breast 7
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- Diaphragm 8
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- Fascia & Connective Tissue 12
- Heart 46
- Left Heart 33
- Left Lung 21
- Lung 39
- Lymphatics 9
- Mediastinum 23
- Muscles & Tendons 28
- Pericardial Sac 25
- Peripheral Nervous System 32
- Pleura 11
- Rib Cage 16
- Right Heart 31
- Right Lung 17
- Skin 2
- Thymus 2
- Vasculature 43
- Vertebral Column 20
Dissection of thorax from a posterior approach
Thoracic viscera.
Image #132-4
KEYWORDS: Diaphragm, Lung, Mediastinum, Muscles and tendons, Pleura.
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Dissection of thorax from a posterior approach
Thoracic viscera.
The posterior half of the costal pleura has been removed. The superior and posterior parts of the mediastinum have been dissected.
- Upper lobe left lung
- Oblique fissure
- Thoracic duct
- Esophagus
- Posterior intercostal artery II
- Lower lobe left lung
- Accessory hemiazygos vein
- Thoracic aorta (note origins of paired posterior intercostal arteries)
- Pericardium
- Upper pointer: Pulmonary ligament Lower pointer: Hemiazygos vein
- Greater splanchnic nerves (cut off)
- Rib IX
- Intervertebral disc Th. XI-XII
- Posterior longitudinal ligament
- Spinal cord
- Cupula pleurae
- Intervertebral disc Th. II- III
- Upper lobe right lung
- Trachea
- Oblique fissure
- Azygos vein (passing anteriorly to join superior vena cava)
- Right main bronchus
- Right pulmonary artery
- Right inferior pulmonary vein
- Right vagus nerve
- Inferior lobe right lung
- Azygos vein
- Pericardium enclosing inferior vena cava
- Diaphragm
- Mediastinal pleura