The sternalis muscle: A normal finding encountered during breast surgery

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1189-1190

  Bailey, Patricia M ^b   Tzarnas, Chris D ^b   Kimata, Yoshihiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; BREAST SURGERY; CADAVER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; MASTECTOMY; MUSCLE MALFORMATION; MUSCLE TISSUE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL ANATOMY;

EID: 0033050636     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199904010-00013     Document Type: Article

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