Macroscopic study of the adult thymus

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Mar 1987 English Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy, volume 9, pages 51-62 (issn: 0930-1038, eissn: 1279-8517,

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Authors: V, Di Marino; M, Argème; C, Brunet; R, Coppens; J, Bonnoit;

doi: 10.1007/bf02116854

pmid: 3112979

Macroscopic study of the adult thymus

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Abstract

The dissection of 48 cadaveric specimens has been compared with operative findings for a review of the shape, size and site of this gland in the adult. The structure of the thymic compartment and the relations of the thymus, particularly with the vessels of the superior mediastinum and the base of the neck, were studied. The relative positions of the inferior parathyroid glands and the thymus were identified, with respect to the influence of this topography on the surgery of these glands. The arterial suply to the thymus, which is still very abundant in the adult, presupposes a functional organ whose physiologic involution is slow.

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Adult, Humans, Thymus Gland, Thorax, Neck

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