An embryological study of fetal development of the rectourethralis muscle - Does it really exist?

Journal of Urology

Volumn 173, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 583-586

  Sebe, Philippe ^a   Oswald, Josef ^b   Fritsch, Helga ^b   Aigner, Felix ^b   Bartsch, Georg ^b   Radmayr, Christian ^b  

^a HÔPITAL TENON   (France)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Muscle; Prostate; Rectum; Smooth; Urethra

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANUS; ARTICLE; BLADDER SPHINCTER; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; PERINEUM; PLASTINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; RECTUM; RETROPERITONEUM; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SMOOTH MUSCLE; URETHRA;

EID: 12544257573     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ju.0000151248.37875.24     Document Type: Article

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