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Coronary Bypass Grafts

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Operative Anatomy of the Heart

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The thoracic part of the right subclavian artery originates from the brachiocephalic trunk, just behind the sternoclavicular joint, and passes upward in the scalenotracheal fossa to the medial margin of the scalenus anterior.

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  1. Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, CHUV, Rue du Bugnon 46, Lausanne, 1011, Switzerland

    Denis Berdajs MD

  2. University Hospital Zürich, Haldenbach 18, CH-8091, Zürich, Switzerland

    Prof. Marko I. Turina MD

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Berdajs, D., Turina, M.I. (2011). Coronary Bypass Grafts. In: Operative Anatomy of the Heart. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69229-4_3

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