Effect of normal ageing on the sites of aortic bifurcation and inferior vena cava confluence: A CT study

Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 63-68

  Kornreich, L ^a   Hadar, H ^b   Sulkes, J ^b   Gornish, M ^b   Ackerman, J ^b   Gadoth, N ^b  

^a SCHNEIDER CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Ageing; Aortic bifurcation; Computed tomography; Vena cava confluence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; AORTA BIFURCATION; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROSCOPY; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL ANATOMY;

EID: 0031940151     PISSN: 09301038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01628118     Document Type: Article

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