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The sero-fatty fringe of the pericardium can be studied by MRI. It can be used to help in the vascularisation at the bronchial suture lines where bronchial vascularisation is poor or where the covering by neighboring tissues is inadequate.
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Riquet, M., Zouaoui, A., Thorner, M. et al. Sero-fatty fringes of the pericardium: anatomical and radiological preoperative assessment of their availability for the protection of bronchial sutures (26.01.1990). Surg Radiol Anat 12, 153–154 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01623344
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