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Anatomy and Pathology of Small Coronary Arteries

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Coronary Circulation

Part of the book series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine ((DICM,volume 79))

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All normal arterial blood flow in the myocardium passes through the small coronary arteries. In addition to being this essential conduit they also serve as the principal site of flow regulation by virtue of their vasoreactivity. To discuss these clearly important vessels this presentation will deal first with their normal anatomy and then with the nature of pathological changes in them, concluding with a section on functional interpretation.

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  1. Department of Medical Physics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Jos A. E. Spaan

  2. Department of Cardiology, University Hospital, Leiden, The Netherlands

    Albert V. G. Bruschke

  3. Laboratory for Anatomy and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Leiden, The Netherlands

    Adriana C. Gittenberger-De Groot

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James, T.N. (1987). Anatomy and Pathology of Small Coronary Arteries. In: Spaan, J.A.E., Bruschke, A.V.G., Gittenberger-De Groot, A.C. (eds) Coronary Circulation. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 79. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3369-9_2

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