Origin of the pulmonary venous orifice i
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Tasaka, Hiroyasu ;Krug, Edward L. ;Markwald, Roger R.
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Article
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1996
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Background: Human embryology textbooks indicate that the trunks of the pulmonary vein and artery originate from the left atrium and aortic sac, respectively, based on histological analyses of limited human specimens. However, our studies show that the pulmonary venous trunk in the mouse as in other