Development of the human fetal airway tree: Analysis of the numerical density of airway endtips

Anatomical Record

Volumn 244, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 207-213

  Kitaoka, Hiroko ^a,b   Burri, Peter H ^a   Weibel, Ewald R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Airway branching; Endtips of airway tree; Fetal lung; Numerical density; Pseudoglandular stage; Three dimensional reconstruction

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY; ARTICLE; FETUS; FETUS LUNG; HUMAN; LUNG DEVELOPMENT; LUNG LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM;

FETUS; HUMANS; LUNG;

EID: 0030053493     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0185(199602)244:2<207::AID-AR8>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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