Anatomic Structures of the Thoracic Outlet

Abstract

When the decision to update the Symposium of 1967 was made, it was immediately apparent that one of the most lucid of all available descriptions of this regional anatomy was Nichols's. Illustrations of recorded anomalies, compressions, and impingements are simple and clear. These most enlightening and superb three-dimensional drawings, which were made from cadaver dissection, show all area structures and relationships, both looking down from above and looking up at thoracic outlet from below. Such superior anatomy depiction is a sine qua non for accurate surgery.