Anatomical basis for the development of a thoracic duct cannulation model without thoracotomy in Large White pigs

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Funding Acknowledgements

The Early Career Research Grant, The University of Melbourne, supported this work. We thank Dr Prue Pereira-Fantini and Mr Magdy Sourial in the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Victoria, Australia for kindly providing the swine cadavers. The authors thank Mr Bob Geyer for his care of experimental animals. We also thank Dr Michiko Mirams for proofreading this manuscript.