Variations in the number and position of human lumbar sympathetic ganglia and rami communicantes

Clinical Anatomy

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 108-113

  Murata, Yasuaki ^a   Takahashi, Kazuhisa ^a   Yamagata, Masatsune ^a   Takahashi, Yuzuru ^a   Shimada, Yutaka ^a   Moriya, Hideshige ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Back pain; Lumbar spine; Ramus communicans; Spinal nerve; Sympathetic ganglion; Sympathetic trunk

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CADAVER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; LUMBAR SYMPATHETIC GANGLION; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NOCICEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL NERVE; STATISTICS; SYMPATHETIC GANGLION; SYMPATHETIC TRUNK;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CADAVER; FEMALE; FIXATIVES; FORMALDEHYDE; GANGLIA, SYMPATHETIC; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; LUMBOSACRAL PLEXUS; MALE;

EID: 0037287165     PISSN: 08973806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ca.10069     Document Type: Article

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