Posterior lumbar epidural fat as a functional structure?: Histologic specificities

Spine

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1264-1269

  Beaujeux, Rémy ^a,b   Wolfram Gabel, Renée ^a   Kehrli, Pierre ^a   Fabre, Michel ^a   Dietemann, Jean Louis ^a   Maitrot, Daniel ^a   Bourjat, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF STRASBOURG   (France)

^b HÔPITAL CIVIL   (France)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Epidural space; Fat; Soft tissues; Spinal canal; Spine

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ARTICLE; EPIDURAL SPACE; FETUS; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUMBAR SPINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; EPIDURAL SPACE; FETUS; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; LUMBOSACRAL REGION;

EID: 0030974190     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007632-199706010-00021     Document Type: Article

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