An accessory belly of the abductor digiti minimi muscle: A case report and embryologic aspects

Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 51-54

  Soldado Carrera, F ^a   Vilar Coromina, N ^a   Rodriguez Baeza A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Abductor digiti minimi muscle; Accessory belly; Variation

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; BLASTEMA; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DISSECTION; EMBRYOLOGY; FASCIA; FLEXOR MUSCLE; FOREARM; HAND; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MESENCHYME CELL; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TENDON; ULNAR NERVE;

EID: 0034015250     PISSN: 09301038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00276-000-0051-1     Document Type: Article

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