Monday 13 June 2016

Internal Thoracic Artery in the Treatment of Coronary Artery Disease- Lymph Drainage of the Thoracic Wall

Internal Thoracic Artery in the Treatment of Coronary Artery Disease
In patients with occlusive coronary disease caused by atherosclerosis, the diseased arterial segment can be bypassed by inserting a graft. The graft most commonly used is the great saphenous vein of the leg. In some patients, the myocardium can be revascularized by surgically mobilizing one of the internal thoracic arteries and joining its distal cut end to a coronary artery.


 Lymph Drainage of the Thoracic Wall

 The lymph drainage of the skin of the anterior chest wall passes to the anterior axillary lymph nodes; that from the posterior chest wall passes to the posterior axillary nodes. The lymph drainage of the intercostal spaces passes forward to the internal thoracic nodes, situated along the internal thoracic artery, and posteriorly to the posterior intercostal nodes and the para-aortic nodes in the posterior mediastinum.



















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