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Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2005;28:779
© 2005 Elsevier Science NL

Letter to the Editor

Further discursions concerning the unique myocardial band

^a University Clinic, Experimental Heart Surgery, Domagkstrasse 11, 48149 Muenster, Germany
^b University College, Institute of Child Health, Cardiac Unit, London, UK

Received 5 July 2005; accepted 9 August 2005.

^_* Corresponding author. Tel.: +49 251 8352541; fax: +49 251 8356257. (Email: redmann@uni-muenster.de).

Key Words: Myocardial band • Microsonometry • Myocardial fibres • Triebwerkzeug

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In the current issue of the Journal, Corno argues that the ‘new concepts on cardiac anatomy and physiology...deserve for further and deeper investigations’ [1]. Should he not first examine existing anatomic investigations of the past 400 years showing that the heart is formed on the basis of a modified blood vessel, and not in the fashion of skeletal musculature, rather than obfuscate the issue with comments about the free-standing subpulmonary infundibulum, an important feature of anatomy that owes nothing to the presence or absence of a unique myocardial band [2]?

Castella and colleagues [3] describe microsonometric findings, which display a . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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