Morphological analysis of the human tibialis anterior and medial gastrocnemius muscles

Cells Tissues Organs

Volumn 158, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 287-295

  Wolf, S L ^a   Kim, J H ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Compartments; Medial gastrocnemius; Morphology; Partition; Tibialis anterior

Indexed keywords

APONEUROSIS; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CYTOARCHITECTURE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE INNERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE;

CELL SIZE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; ORGAN SIZE; TIBIA; TIBIAL NERVE;

EID: 0030656947     PISSN: 14226405     EISSN: 14226421     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000147942     Document Type: Article

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