Angiology Flashcards
What is the anatomical name for the LAD
Anterior interventricular artery
Which major coronary artery (right or left) does more to supply the conductance system of the heart?
What branch of that major artery is so vital?
The left coronary artery
Anterior interventricular artery (LAD)
Which side has the brachiocephalic trunk?
What comes off of the brachiocephalic trunk.?
The right side.
Right common carotid and right subclavian arteries.
What artery does the anterior intercostal artery come off of?
Internal thoracic
What are the two terminal arteries of the internal thoracic artery?
Which one is medial, and which one is lateral?
Musculophrenic (lateral)
Superior epigastric (medial)
What vessel do the right and left bronchial arteries come off of?
The thoracic aorta.
They are the “paired lateral visceral branches”
What three arteries supply the diaphram?
Musculophrenic (internal thoracic)
Pericardiophrenic (internal thoracic)
Superior phrenic (descending thoracic aorta)
What cardiac vein empties directly into the right atrium without passing through the coronary sinus?
Anterior cardiac veins
What vein runs with the posterior interventricular artery?
Middle cardiac vein
What two arteries run with the great cardiac vein?
Circumflex artery
Anterior interventricular artery
What vein can run with the right marginal artery?
Small cardiac vein
What drains the posterior intercostal vein from the right side of the posterior thoracic wall?
What drains posterior intercostal vein from the left side of the lower posterior thoracic wall (T9 and down)?
What drains posterior intercostal vein from the left side of the upper posterior thoracic wall (T8 and up)?
1) Azygos vein
2) Hemiazygos vein
3) Accessory hemiazygos vein
What does the thoracic duct originates as in the abdomen?
What trunk of the thoracic duct drains the upper extremity and axilla via the axillary lymphatic plexus?
What trunk of the thoracic duct drains the cranial and cervical lymph nodes?
What trunk of the thoracic duct drains the parasternal, paratracheal, paraesophageal, superior phrenic and brachiocephalic lymph nodes?
What drains primarily the subclavian lymphatic trunk and the bronchomediastinal trunk into the brachiocephalic vein near its origin?
1) Chyle cistern
2) Subclavian trunk
3) Jugular trunk
4) Bronchomediastinal trunk
5) Right Lymphatic duct
Lymph drains from what on the right side and left side respectively into venous circulation?
Right side: Right lymphatic duct
Left: Thoracic duct
What LNs are involved with breast cancer?
What LNs are involved with lung cancer?
1) Axillary and Parasternal LNs
2) Tracheobronchial LNs
