SOURCE: Rohen, J. W., Yokochi, Chihiro, & Lütjen-Drecoll, Elke. (2011). Color atlas of anatomy : a photographic study of the human body (7th ed.). Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins ; Schattauer.
During a thoracoscopy for a lung tumour, a surgical registrar encounters a structure that corresponds to label A on the prosection image shown. Potential consequences of injury to this structure may include:

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SOURCE:  Rohen, J. W., Yokochi, Chihiro, & Lütjen-Drecoll, Elke. (2011). Color atlas of anatomy : a photographic study of the human body (7th ed.). Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins ; Schattauer. 
 During a thoracoscopy for a lung tumour, a surgical registrar encounters a structure that corresponds to label A on the prosection image shown. Potential consequences of injury to this structure may include:

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Decreased sympathetic innervation to the foregut

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Paralysis of the corresponding hemidiaphragm

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Decreased centrally-driven digestion and mucous secretion in the hind-gut

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Decreased pain sensation from the oesophagus

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SOURCE: Rohen, J. W., Yokochi, Chihiro, & Lütjen-Drecoll, Elke. (2011). Col...

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