Mediastinal branches of thoracic part of aorta

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Artery: Mediastinal branches of thoracic part of aorta
Latin	rami mediastinales partis thoracicae aortae
Gray's	subject #153 600
Supplies	posterior mediastinum
Source	thoracic aorta
Dorlands / Elsevier	r_02/12690827

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]

The mediastinal branches are numerous small vessels which supply the lymph glands and loose areolar tissue in the posterior mediastinum.

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v • d • e List of arteries of torso - chest
Pulmonary / coronary	right coronary: SA nodal - AV nodal - atrial - right marginal - posterior interventricular left coronary: anterior interventricular - left circumflex - left marginal
Ascending aorta	aortic arch - brachiocephalic (thyreoidea ima) - common carotid
Subclavian	internal thoracic: anterior intercostal - thymic - pericardiacophrenic - terminal (musculophrenic, superior epigastric) costocervical trunk: highest intercostal (posterior intercostal 1-2) - deep cervical
Descending / thoracic aorta	visceral: bronchial - esophageal - mediastinal parietal: posterior intercostal 3-11 - subcostal - superior phrenic