Dissection of mediastinum and paravertebral structures
Esophagus
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Image #128-7
Dissection of mediastinum and paravertebral structures
Esophagus
The esophagus has been exposed by removing the trachea, the right pulmonary artery and part of the pericardium from the specimen shown previously.
- Chin
- Mandible
- Digastric muscle
- Larynx
- Upper pointer: Inferior laryngeal nerve Lower pointer: Trachea (cut off below first tracheal cartilage)
- Stellate ganglion
- Upper pointer: Right vagus nerve Lower pointer: Recurrent laryngeal nerve right (note esophageal branches)
- Anterior scalene muscle
- Longus colli muscle
- Esophagus
- Right lung
- Azygos vein
- Right main bronchus
- Right pulmonary artery
- Right pulmonary veins
- Inferior vena cava
- Diaphragm
- Upper pointer: Common carotid artery Lower pointer: Internal jugular vein
- Vagus nerve left
- Phrenic nerve left
- Sympathetic trunk
- Recurrent laryngeal nerve
- Brachial plexus
- Left subclavian artery
- Rib I
- Lung left
- Upper pointer: Aortic arch Lower pointer: Ligamentum arteriosum (cut off)
- Left main bronchus
- Left pulmonary artery
- Left pulmonary veins
- Thoracic aorta
- Filament of esophageal plexus
- Pericardium
- Sternum