Colour Doppler ultrasonography for evaluation of anterior chest blood supply: The possible role of arterial blood supply to the costosternal junction in the aetiology of idiopathic scoliosis in female adolescents

European Spine Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 44-48

  Korovessis, Panagiotis ^a   Iliopoulos, Panagiotis ^a   Misiris, Alexandros ^a   Koureas, Georgios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY GENERAL HOSPITAL OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aetiology; Internal mammary artery; Thoracic idiopathic scoliosis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTERIAL BLOOD; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VOLUME; BREAST; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FLOW MEASUREMENT; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; MAMMARY GLAND; PARAMETER; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RELIABILITY; RIB; ROTATION; SPINE MALFORMATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STERNOCOSTAL JOINT; THORAX; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THORAX WALL; TIME; VASCULARIZATION; VERTEBRA;

ADOLESCENT; BREAST; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMARY ARTERIES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RIBS; SCOLIOSIS; STERNUM; THORACIC WALL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 1442352121     PISSN: 09406719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00586-003-0628-6     Document Type: Article

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