Pericardiacophrenic artery
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". The pericardiacophrenic artery is a long slender branch of the internal thoracic artery.[1]
Anatomy
Origin
The pericardiacophrenic artery branches from the internal thoracic artery.[1]
Course
The pericardiacophrenic arteries travel through the thoracic cavity. They course through the fibrous pericardium.[2] The pericardiacophrenic artery accompanies the phrenic nerve between the pleura and pericardium, to the diaphragm.[3] This is where both the artery and the phrenic nerve are distributed.
Distribution
The pericardiacophrenic arteries provide arterial supply to the fibrous pericardium,[2] and (along with the musculophrenic arteries) the diaphragm.[4]
Anastomoses
It anastomoses with the musculophrenic, and superior phrenic arteries.[5]
References
Public domain This article incorporates text in the public domain from Template:Wikidatathe 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)
External links
- Anatomy photo:19:11-0104 at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center - "Pleural Cavities and Lungs: Structures Beneath the Left Mediastinal pleura"
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