Bassett Collection Large Image - Lane Medical Library, Stanford University Medical Center

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Dissection of diaphragm

Right phrenic nerve and phrenic lymphatic plexus viewed from above and in front

1 .	Phrenic nerve right (stretched to display branches)
2 .	Central tendon (right and central divisions)
3 .	Inferior vena cava (cut off)
4 .	Phrenic lymph node
5 .	Costal part of diaphragm
6 .	Pericardium
7 .	Esophagus
8 .	Mediastinal pleura (cut along right pulmonary ligament)
9 .	Left vagus nerve
10 .	Posterior mediastinal lymph node
11 .	Phrenicoesophageal membrane
12 .	Lymph vessel