The summary of class notes + textbook for the human anatomy. In-depth description of the bones, muscles, fascias, and organs of the body with related clinical cases of the cardiovascular system
Building the Mediastinum
1. 12 thoracic vertebrae with
sympathetic trunk
2. Chains of sympathetic ganglia
3. Azygos venous system
a. Begins in the abdomen and
enters the thorax
b. 2 hemiazygos veins join the
azygos vein at T8
c. Azygos vein arches at the
upper end over the right
bronchus and joins the SVC
4. Thoracic duct = a lymphatic
channel
a. Begins in the abdomen from the
cisterna chyli
b. Pass through the superior
aperture of thorax
Mediastinum 2
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