Functional anatomy and hemodynamic characteristics of vasa vasorum in the walls of porcine coronary arteries

Anatomical Record - Part A Discoveries in Molecular, Cellular, and Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 272, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 526-537

  Gössl, Mario ^a   Rosol, Michael ^b   Malyar, Nasser M ^a   Fitzpatrick, Lorraine A ^a   Beighley, Patricia E ^a   Zamir, Mair ^c   Ritman, Erik L ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Vasa vasorum; Vascular branching structure; Vascular disease; Vessel wall perfusion

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; ATHEROGENESIS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CALCULATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORONARY ARTERY; DENSITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; GEOMETRY; HEMODYNAMICS; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE; VASA VASORUM; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ANIMALIA; SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0141960094     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.a.10060     Document Type: Article

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