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Pericardiacophrenic artery

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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]


Overview

Overview

The pericardiacophrenic artery is a long slender branch, that accompanies the phrenic nerve, between the pleura and pericardium, to the diaphragm, to which it is distributed; it anastomoses with the musculophrenic and inferior phrenic arteries.

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