Three-dimensional arrangement of the vasa vasorum in explanted segments of the aged human great saphenous vein: Scanning electron microscopy and three-dimensional morphometry of vascular corrosion casts

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

Volumn 281, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 1372-1382

  Lametschwandtner, Alois ^a   Minnich, Bernd ^a   Kachlik, David ^b   Setina, Marek ^c   Stingl, Josef ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c Regional Hospital   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

3D morphometry; Man; Saphenous vein; Scanning electron microscopy; Vasa vasorum; Vascular casts

Indexed keywords

POLYMER; RESIN;

ADULT; ADVENTITIA; AGED; ARTICLE; CANNULATION; CAPILLARY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; EXPLANT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MICROSCOPE IMAGE; MORPHOMETRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VASA VASORUM;

AGED; CAPILLARIES; CORROSION CASTING; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; VASA VASORUM; VEINS;

EID: 10044251964     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.a.20098     Document Type: Article

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