The ribs: Anatomic and radiologic considerations

Radiographics

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 105-119

  Kurihara, Yasuyuki ^a   Yakushiji, Yoshiko K ^a   Matsumoto, Junichi ^a   Ishikawa, Tohru ^a   Hirata, Kazuaki ^a  

^a ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ribs, 471.13, 471.14, 471.92; Thorax, CT, 471.1211; Thorax, radiography, 471.11

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REVIEW; RIB; STERNUM; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

HUMANS; MANUBRIUM; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RIBS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0032608079     PISSN: 02715333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiographics.19.1.g99ja02105     Document Type: Article

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