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A case of pentacuspid pulmonary valve

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A pentacuspid pulmonary valve is a rare congenital anomaly. The present report describes a case of pentacuspid pulmonary valve encountered during the autopsy of a 50-year-old man with a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm. The pentacuspid pulmonary valve had three relatively equal cusps and two smaller cusps. In this case, a tricuspid aortic valve was identified with normal structure and no evidence of heart failure was found clinically or pathologically.

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This study was supported by Akdeniz University Research Foundation Antalya, Turkey. The authors wish to express their deep gratitude to R. Yavuz Arican for his contributions to this work.

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  1. Council of Forensic Medicine, Antalya Group Authority, Antalya, Turkey

    Sema Demircin

  2. Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Akdeniz University, 07059, Antalya, Turkey

    Sema Demircin

  3. Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Akdeniz University, 07070, Antalya, Turkey

    Nigar Keles-Coskun

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Demircin, S., Keles-Coskun, N. A case of pentacuspid pulmonary valve. Surg Radiol Anat 32, 613–615 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00276-009-0607-7

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