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In view of the fact that, in cardiology and coronary surgery, peculiarities and anomalies of the coronary arteries pose a great potential risk for myocardial ischemia resulting in arrhythmia, angina, infarction, and sudden death, a survey of the morphology of the coronary arteries in cadaver specimens (n=200) and corrosion casts (n=30) was undertaken. The results are not divided into those obtained from subjects with or without coronary heart disease. The randomly selected material from two anatomical institutes, of the Universities of Munich and Würzburg, was considered representative of an average group of septuagenarians and octogenarians in the German population. It is the patient of this age that the young medical students of today (the future physicians) will be confronted with and called upon to treat.
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von Lüdinghausen, M. (2003). Summary. In: The Clinical Anatomy of Coronary Arteries. Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology, vol 167. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55807-8_6
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