University of Nebraska Medical Center DigitalCommons@UNMC Theses & Dissertations Graduate Studies Spring 5-6-2017 A Cadaveric Study of Coronary Artery Variations Mitchell Lee Milanuk University of Nebraska Medical Center Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unmc.edu/etd Part of the Cardiovascular System Commons Recommended Citation Milanuk, Mitchell Lee, "A Cadaveric Study of Coronary Artery Variations" (2017). Theses & Dissertations. 187. https://digitalcommons.unmc.edu/etd/187 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate Studies at DigitalCommons@UNMC. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theses & Dissertations by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UNMC. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. A CADAVERIC STUDY OF CORONARY ARTERY VARIATIONS by Mitchell Lee Milanuk A THESIS Presented to the Faculty of the University of Nebraska Graduate College in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science Genetics, Cell Biology, and Anatomy Graduate Program Under the Supervision of Dr. Keely Cassidy University of Nebraska Medical Center Omaha, Nebraska May, 2017 Advisory Committee: Keely Cassidy, PhD. Travis McCumber, PhD. Karen Gould, PhD. Samantha Simet, PhD. Shantaram Joshi, PhD. ii Acknowledgements First and foremost, the author would like to thank his advisor, Dr. Keely Cassidy, for her guidance and assistance, as well as Dr. Karen Gould for her supervision throughout this project. He would also like to thank Syd Clausen, Jesse Boyd, and Jon VanErdwyk for their assistance in obtaining photographs of the cadaveric hearts studied. The author would like to thank and acknowledge all the UNMC GCBA teaching faculty, especially Drs.