Morphological and histological analysis of the thoracic duct at the jugulo-subclavian junction in Japanese cadavers

Clinical Anatomy

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 163-172

  Shimada, Kazuyuki ^a   Sato, Iwao ^b  

^a SHOWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NIPPON DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

extracellular matrix; human; immunochemistry; scanning electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; FIBRONECTIN; LAMININ; TENASCIN;

ARTICLE; CADAVER; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; JAPAN; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THORACIC DUCT;

EID: 0031004170     PISSN: 08973806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2353(1997)10:3<163::AID-CA2>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Article

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