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Coronary Arteries

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In this chapter, we describe the anatomy of the left and right coronary ostia. The classical anatomical literature describes the origins of the left and right coronary arteries (LCA and RCA, respectively) as being positioned centrally in the middle of the left and the right coronary sinuses, respectively.

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    Denis Berdajs MD

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Berdajs, D., Turina, M.I. (2011). Coronary Arteries. In: Operative Anatomy of the Heart. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69229-4_4

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