A conical fibro-serous sac surrounding the HEART and the roots of the great vessels (AORTA; VENAE CAVAE; PULMONARY ARTERY). Pericardium consists of two sacs: the outer fibrous pericardium and the inner serous pericardium. The latter consists of an outer parietal layer facing the fibrous pericardium, and an inner visceral layer (epicardium) resting next to the heart, and a pericardial cavity between these two layers.
    

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Adherent pericardium / by John F. H. Broadbent.

La chirurgia del pericardio e del cuore / Errico Giordano.

An experimental and clinical study of pain in the pleura, pericardium and peritoneum / by Joseph A. Capps ; with the collaboration of George H. Coleman ; a foreword by Anton J. Carlson.

Reference heart sounds. Part one.

De hydro-pneumo-pericardio : dissertatio inauguralis medica ... / publice defendet auctor Ludovicus Sorauer ; opponentibus Guttmann, Jottkowitz, Richter.

Reference heart sounds. Part two.

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La chirurgia del pericardio e del cuore / Errico Giordano.

An experimental and clinical study of pain in the pleura, pericardium and peritoneum / by Joseph A. Capps ; with the collaboration of George H. Coleman ; a foreword by Anton J. Carlson.

Reference heart sounds. Part one.

De hydro-pneumo-pericardio : dissertatio inauguralis medica ... / publice defendet auctor Ludovicus Sorauer ; opponentibus Guttmann, Jottkowitz, Richter.

Reference heart sounds. Part two.