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Lumbar azygos vein producing an azygos lobe in the right lung
Muhammad Saeed1, Amin A Rufai, Salah E Osman El-Sayad
1Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, 28-King Khalid University Hospital, Riyadh 11461, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. shafi@ksu.edu.sa
Saudi Medical Journal
|April 16, 2002
Abstract:
The continuation of the azygos vein with the inferior vena cava and a well demarcated azygos lobe of the right lung were detected during routine dissection of a 65-years-old white male cadaver. The azygos arch was found dilated and malpositioned to create an aberrant azygos fissure in the right superior lobe which, was occupied by a fold of parietal pleura. The developmental and clinical significance of the azygos lobe is discussed.