Morphometry of the internal thoracic arteries

Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 243-247

  Lachman, N ^a   Satyapal, K S ^b  

^a DURBAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Internal thoracic artery; Morphometry; Proximal, middle and distal segments

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0031719086     PISSN: 09301038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01628482     Document Type: Article

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