Case
During a cardiac surgery on a 38 year old female patient, the surgeon detaches the left internal thoracic artery and connects it to a coronary artery in a bypass surgery (a LITA procedure, left internal thoracic artery coronary bypass). The surgeon is unconcerned about blood supply to the chest wall or the breast.
Question 1/2 - Why is the surgeon unconcerned?
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