Detailed dissection of heart
Posterior surface of heart, epicardium intact
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Detailed dissection of heart
Posterior surface of heart, epicardium intact
- Right pulmonary vein
- Right pulmonary artery
- Left atrium (pointers terminate on pericardial reflections which form boundaries of oblique sinus of pericardial cavity)
- Fragment of aorta preserved at attachment of ligamentum arteriosum
- Ligamentum arteriosum
- Left pulmonary artery
- Left pulmonary vein
- Pericardium (parietal side)
- Coronary sinus
- Left ventricle
- Right auricle (interior, visible through right atrium)
- Crista terminalis
- Right atrium
- Inferior vena cava
- Coronary sulcus
- Right ventricle
- Middle cardiac vein (overlying posterior interventricular sulcus)