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Fig. 2

From: Development of an ovine efferent mammary lymphatic cannulation model with minimal tissue damage

Fig. 2

The dissection of ovine mammary lymphatics. The locations of the mammary lymphatics and their relationships to the external pudendal vessels found in different cadavers are depicted in (a) and (b). The mammary lymphatics leaving the mammary lymph centre usually ran together with the external pudendal vessels in parallel before entering the abdomen through the inguinal ring. a A mammary lymphatic medial to the aponeurosis of the external abdominal oblique muscle was located cranial to the external pudendal vessels in this sheep. The arrowheads mark the ventral edge of the aponeurosis of the external abdominal oblique muscle. →: mammary lymphatic. b Different to the findings in (a), the mammary lymphatic was caudal to external pudendal vessels in this animal with two lymphatic vessels identified. Figure 2a and b are positioned with cranial to the right and caudal to the left

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