Case reportPatent Levoatrial Cardinal Vein Without Left Heart Hypoplasia
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An anomalous vein connecting either the left atrium or the pulmonary vein to a systemic vein was first described by MacIntosh [1] in 1926, and Edwards and DuShane [2] designated this type of malformation as a levoatrial cardinal vein in 1950. Reports of the levoatrial cardinal vein typically described normal pulmonary connections and hypoplasia of the left heart and suggested that the channel resulted from the persistence of primitive connections between the embryonic pulmonary venous
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