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Keith-Flack node
Also known as:
Keith’s bundle
Keith’s node
Associated persons:
Martin William Flack
Sir Arthur Keith
Description:
This is the sino-atrial node of the heart, often called the pacemaker of the heart. Keith and his assistant Martin William Flack described it in 1906.
Bibliography:
- A. Keith, M. W. Flack:
The Auriculo-Ventricular Bundle of the Human Heart.
Lancet, London, 1906, 2: 359.
The form and nature of the muscular connections between the primary divisions of the vertebrate heart.
Journal of Anatomy, London, 1906-1907, 41: 172-189.
Reprinted in Willius & Keys: Cardiac classics, 1941, pp. 747-762.
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