Human (and some other primates') uterine teres ligament represents a mammalian developmental novelty

Anatomical Record

Volumn 244, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 402-415

  Van Der Schoot, Pieter ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Gubernaculum; Human embryology; Round ligament; Uterine teres ligament

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CREMASTER MUSCLE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIGAMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; UTERUS;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CATTLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMALS; RABBITS; RATS; ROUND LIGAMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWINE; UTERUS;

EID: 0030030299     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0185(199603)244:3<402::AID-AR11>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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