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Tawara's node
Also known as:
Aschoff-Tawara node
Koch’s nodes (Walter Karl Koch)
Tawara’s bundle
Associated persons:
Karl Albert Ludwig Aschoff
Walter Karl Koch
Sunao Tawara
Description:
The atrioventricular node, a small node of modified cardiac muscle that is the beginning of the auricular-ventricular bundle of His.
Bibliography:
- S. Tawara:
Das Reizleitungssystem des Säugetierherzens. Eine anatomische Studie über das atrioventrikuläre Bündel und die Purkinjeschen Fäden. Mit einem Vorwort von L. Aschoff.
Jena, G. Fischer 1906.
- W. Koch, in:
Deutsche medicinische Wochenschrift, 1909, 35: 429.
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